The Beijing Olympics and the Olympic Tickets Scam

August 5, 2008 · Filed Under news, opinion · Comment 

The Beijing Olympics is fast approaching and seeing the fireworks dress rehearsals for the Final Day, is definitely impressive. They have constructed some amazing venues for different sports events.

Beijing Olympics

But, oh no! A lot of people have been duped by this one website offering tickets to the upcoming Olympics in Beijing, China.

Tsk.. So sad considering that most of those who bought tickets probably (well, most likely) saved up for it, and now, some opportunists “stole” their money. Some even lost as much as $27,000.00. That amount could feed thousands of poor Pinoys already. Haaay…

This is proof that people should really be cautious in online transactions, especially with lots of money involved, cause there are people who are guiltless and would just take advantage of others. Reports about this Beijing Olympic tickets scam started buzzing as early as March, but people did not really mind (we guess) cause, according to reports, when you search online for tickets, the site’s gonna come up with a rank even higher than the official Olympic website. They just got suspicious when the tickets “they bought” did not arrive.

Tsk. That’s an olympic gold for a scam.

Photo credit: beijing2008.cn

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