Fans fall prey to online touts
Victims pay exorbitant prices but not given concert tickets
THREE more people have claimed they were cheated of RM3,900 for tickets to Cantopop King Jacky Cheung’s A Classic Tour Concert, reported China Press.
These complaints come after a 26-year-old consultant reported that he paid RM2,800 for four tickets online.
In the latest cases, two of the victims said they transacted with “Adam and Sean” over Facebook but after transferring money to a bank account for their purchase they did not receive their tickets.
It dawned on them that they were cheated after “Adam and Sean” could not be contacted.
Another victim, a housewife known as Chan, said she did not receive her tickets after transferring RM2,200 to an online seller.
When she could not contact the seller, she went to the police.
Tickets to Cheung’s concert on Jan 26 and 27 have sold out, with many fans queuing overnight to buy them when they first went on sale.
> Sin Chew Daily reported that Singaporean singer Stefanie Sun was rumoured to be pregnant with her second child when she halted promotional activities for her newly-released album.
She is said to be due in July. Sun, who has a five-year-old son with husband Nadim Van Der Ros, had revealed her plans to have a second child this year.
> Oriental Daily reported that the number of Chinese children between five and nine years old had declined by 18% or 90,000 over the past seven years.
Citing data from the Statistics Department, the Chinese daily said as at the end of last year, there were 407,700 Chinese children.
This was said to be one of the reasons for the decrease in the number of pupils at Chinese primary schools.
By comparison, the number of Malay children fell 3.3% or 63,400 to 1.85 million while Indian children declined by 16.3% or 27,700 to 141,800.