Buying online tickets is generally safer these days thanks to many services that use technology to make the transfer of ticket ownership a near certainty. But then stuff like this still happens. Here’s the NY Daily News reporting:
An NCAA racket brought nothing but March sadness to one man who bought $500 in fake tickets off of Craigslist, police said on Sunday.
The 20-year-old man purchased the fraudulent tickets off of someone he met through the online classifieds site on Thursday, police said.
Once at the Barclays Center, just steps from the national college basketball tournament, he was informed the tickets were fakes.
