Pay attention to March Madness fraud – Kiro 7 News Seattle

Seattle – In less than a week, the Climate Pledge Arena will transform its ice rink into a basketball court, while Seattle organizes thousands of fans for the first and second round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

The excitement for the tournament is the construction, but fraudsters are already working hard.

“It is not that people are stupid or not understand how to do things. This fraudster is a professional business, ”says cyber security expert Paul Keener.

In one of the greatest fraud, fraudsters sell tickets that look legitimate but not. Often the buyers don't even know that their ticket is wrong until they are arrived and rejected to the event.

For the NCAA tournament, a spokesman for Climate Pledge says to Kiro 7: “We are striving for the best possible guest experience for all fans who come to the Climate Plessge Arena, be it for a octagonal game, a concert or the upcoming March Madness games. We strongly encourage all fans to buy their tickets from the main ticket provider of the event location. This is Ticketmaster.com for the Climate Pledge Arena. The NCAA ticket change for ticketmaster is the official resale market for the upcoming March Madness games. “

“Nobody wants to pay the service fees associated with all these things,” says Keener. “So you try to find a place like Facebook Marketplace or the like.”

He says if you buy a resale, use websites such as Stub Hub, lively seats and ticketmaster that offer reimbursement protection protection that Craigslist and Facebook do not have.

His biggest coaching tip – use a credit card. So if you are cheated, you can make the fee and hopefully repeat the money.

“Maybe they are disappointed because they couldn't come in, but at least they didn't lose 400 US dollars on tickets,” says Keener.

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