Hong Kong police arrest 10 for selling fake tickets to BigBang and other concerts
Verified: 2 outlets have reported this story since Nov 12, 2 of them from Hong Kong. 10 arrested or detained, according to 2 outlets.
Ten people have been arrested for selling counterfeit concert tickets to shows in Hong Kong, including concerts by Korean boy band BigBang, swindling victims out of at least HK$360,000 (US$46,150) through online ticket scams and fake storefronts. Police said on Thursday that the counterfeits were almost identical to genuine tickets and hard to spot as fakes with the naked eye, but were made of rougher paper, had duller printing and lacked the genuine tickets’ laser-emitting corner labels. In an...
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- 102 outlets: news.rthk.hk, scmp.com· latest Nov 12, 2:33 PM UTCHong Kong police arrest 10 for selling fake tickets to BigBang and other concerts ↗
2 outlets from Hong Kong, where the story is: RTHK, South China Morning Post · how we count
- Nov 12, 9:26 AM UTCFirst report10 arrested in fake concert ticket crackdownnews.rthk.hk ↗
- Nov 12, 2:33 PM UTC+5 h· you’re reading thisHong Kong police arrest 10 for selling fake tickets to BigBang and other concertsscmp.com ↗
- Verified: a second independent outlet reported itNov 12, 2:33 PM UTC · +5 h
[Claude] Report 2 covers the same police arrest of 10 people over fake concert tickets in Hong Kong, adding details on the two-day operation and money laundering, with no conflicting facts.
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