Animal Collective Fans Bust Craigslist Scammer

It seems some enterprising young chap decided to make some extra cash by scamming people on Craigslist, allegedly selling (many, many) counterfeit tickets at inflated prices to the Animal Collective show at Bowery Ballroom last night. Brooklyn Vegan commenters are all abuzz about it today, with one explaining, "There was some bad shit going down with counterfeit tickets. As I was going in some people got stopped when the guy scanned their tickets. He asked them if they'd bought them from a guy (he said his name) on Craigslist for $100 and they said yes. He said they were the tenth people that night who'd got caught in the same scam. So someone out there made a LOT of money from last night's show." It seems that the alleged grifter was selling the E-ticket receipt, which can only be scanned one time. And since his name was on it, he's now the object of a serious hipster witch hunt; BV's commenters claim to have figured out his address and work information! We called the fella, and even emailed for comment, but unsurprisingly haven't heard back yet. [via Free Williamsburg]

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on January 22, 2009 3:01 PM

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SeasTooFarToReach

Man, I wish this makes it into the newspaper so I can mail it to the Tonight Show, because there's nothing Jay Leno loves more than a stupid criminal.

On the other hand, I'd say these people had it coming! If you like a band as much to pay 3x the original ticket prize why didn't you just stalk out the tickets online. I went to their show on Tuesday and got my ticket the day it went on sale.

Rich idiots.

TheKlaus

Also, I don't think this Seth dude did it. I think he's a hapless air head who sold his ticketfast ticket to a scalper who then did the deed

Also, I don't condone beatdowns of any kind.

TheKlaus

Oh man, if anyone has the patience and the wherewithal to friend him on facebook to figure out what he looks like, and patiently wait for him outside his place of business... well, this fella might just have his ass handed to him at some point in the near future

Felix Hoenikker

Great, now I'm jonesing for White Castle's.

DanielJ

You don' fuck wit de hipster.

moocowtoo

I would imagine the scammer bought the ticket from this dude, and then scammed it out on CL -- that seems to make more sense.

if this guy really is the scammer then def epic fail!

FAIL

zodak

"It seems that the alleged grifter was selling the E-ticket receipt, which can only be scanned one time. And since his name was on it"

epic fail

moocowtoo

Are they going to throw carrots at him?

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

rotten tomatoes would be a wiser choice.

Kyle T

Have you ever smelled a rotten, I mean really really rotten potato? Worst smell.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

No, actually not. thanks for the tip. I will rot some potatoes at home and keep for future use.

NannyState

"Vegans Attack!"

ganghiscon

SCAM FAIL

Ace

Actually, it was not a fail at all. The person made at least a grand! It's only a fail if he gets caught. That's probably not his name on the "e-ticket". Craigslist, unfortunately is well known for these scams because they require zero registration to place an ad. The only thing needed to place an ad on CL is an email address and that's not enough.