Jinnyboy, a superstar in the world of Malaysia’s social media and YouTube scene, has come forward to admit that he and his wife were victims of scammers, after paying over RM1,500 (US$390) for fraudulent Jay Chou concert tickets, only to arrive on Saturday at Stadium Merdeka and be turned away. Turns out that while their tickets looked real, they didn’t possess the tell-all ultraviolet watermark that all legitimate stubs carried.
In a social media post, he detailed how a friend of his wife’s initially procured spare tickets for purchase for the couple. A man contacted his wife’s friend claiming to have recently broken up with his girlfriend, and now had little interest in attending the show, and was selling his tickets.
Sorry peasants, when you’re the wife of an internet-famous content maker, you can get your friends to find re-sellers for you, no need to get your hands dirty. Can someone get us another Fiji water?
We digress.
Jinnyboy told his followers that the unidentified man came to his private home at 10:30pm on Jan. 5, whereupon he was paid RM1,500 cash for the tickets, and absconded into the night.
It was only when they were physically stopped at the concert venue by security did they realize how incredibly dodgy all of this sounds, and that those “tickets” were more fake than Jinnyboy’s acting. He added that he saw another couple in their 50s stopped for the same reason.
Concert-ticket scamming has been in the headlines over the last month, with several Jacky Cheung fans coming forward to tell their tales of being duped by faux re-sellers, losing thousands in the process.
One of Malaysia’s leading social media stars, Jinnyboy’s videos have provided us with in-depth cultural self-reflection and examination. They have also shed an immeasurable light on our nuanced race relations, and the cultural tropes that hold us back. JK! His latest video is a Chinese New Year-themed clip called “Shopping Ah Shopping” and it walks you through all the CNY stereotypes you’ve ever heard, but, like, in musical form (where IS that poison?).
