There are plenty of scammers out there in Jakarta. But to exploit someone’s love of Jon Bon Jovi for material gain seems like some especially “Bad Medicine”.
But that is exactly what some devious digital criminal did when they set up ticketbonjovi.com, a site that is pretending (yes, it’s still live at the time of writing) to sell authentic tickets to the Bon Jovi concert taking place in Jakarta on September 11.
Police say least 60 Bon Jovi fans have been taken for a ride by the website. One of them, Deki Surahman, reported the site to the authorities after his physical tickets failed to appear as promised 3 days after he purchased them through the site.
Deki told Vivanews the site seemed professional as it had a live chat customer service feature. “We also checked on Google and ticketbonjovi.com was one of the first names that appearered.”
But Deki quickly grew suspicious after his tickets never showed up and he could no longer contact a customer service representative.
“At first we could contact [the site’s customer support] but not long after we could not get ahold of them, through live chat or phone. Their website also does not include an office address,” he said. It’s like they pulled a “Runaway”.
After Deki reported the site to the police, authorities checked with the Bon Jovi concert promoter and confirmed that ticketbonjovi.com was not one of the authorized vendors.
Deki said the scammers have made at least Rp 108 million, judging from the ticket prices (ranging from Rp 500k to Rp 3.5 million) and number of victims he’s learned about. He has urged police to shut down the website (which again, is still active at the moment) and find the perpetrators. He also said they were “Wanted Dead of Alive” (ok, obviously he didn’t say that but we wanted to include one more).
If you want to buy real Bon Jovi tickets you can go to bonjovijakarta.com
