Tickets2cheap.com a scam, warns Queensland Police
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Queensland Police is warning those buying airline tickets online to avoid purchasing their tickets from Tickets2cheap.com, a site they caution is a scam. Police have reasons to believe the site often cancels tickets behind customers’ backs, pockets their money and later gets cold towards them.
Stated to be based in Johannesburg, South Africa, the website boasts of getting you the lowest airfare in the world. Online customers initially are asked to submit their journey details in a form on the website. The site, then, gets back to the customers with the lowest fares they could get. If customers find the rate suitable, they are asked to email their journey details to the site.
An agent from the site next calls the customer to reconfirm the details. This done, the site books e-tickets with the airline and then emails the same to the customer. The customer rechecks with the airline, finds the ticket and the booking real, and wires across the payment to the site. This is how the site claims, it works.
However, police now suspect they often cheat. They believe the site is buying tickets using stolen credit cards at usual prices from the airlines but are presenting it to the customers at heavily discounted prices. Customers finding things in order upon crosschecking with the airlines, release the payment. However, days or even hours before the flight, the site cancels tickets, gets the refund, pockets money belonging to customers, and starts giving them the cold shoulder.
Queensland Police is now asking customers to be wary while purchasing tickets from this site.
Actually, a couple of facts can warn customers of this scam well in advance. If they call up, the airlines will tell them the country of origin of the credit card used for making the payment. If it is a stolen credit card, then its origin will be different from that of the website’s. The airlines will also tell them the actual price at which the ticket was bought. Customers can compare this with the price given by the agent, and so, uncover the scam.
Source: News.com.au
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July 27th, 2008 at 11:35 am
This article is false and unfounded.You internet website just report news without facts.
The queensland police accused ticket2cheap.com wrongly.They received a complaint from one client of ours and they never conducted any investigations.They did not even call us to verify the allegation but with 20 minutes they released a press statement saying that we are fraudulent.
Ever since then website like yours have been reporting this story everywhere and even re-mixing the story.First they said we bought the tickets with stolen credit cards now they say we use our own credit cards but ask for a refund.
Any sensible person can see that you guys don’t know what you are reporting ,you are just copying stories from other website and damaging the good reputation of our company.
I challenge anyone out there to come out with proof that we have sacmmed them.The name of the client who reported our website is Mr Darren Jones and he lives in australia futhermore we did not scam him because he did not pay for the the tickets.Please call the queensland polce and get your facts straight before you start bad mouthing our company .We have loyal clients worldwide and there has never been any complaint until now.
July 27th, 2008 at 11:45 am
The above comment has been published by us as an opportunity to provide and listen to other sides of the story.
However, as readers can verify for themselves, Queensland Police, has expressly raised a scam warning against the company in their official website, which incidentally still stands.
http://www.police.qld.gov.au/News+and+Alerts/Media+Releases/2008/06/Afternoon+Round-up+June+27.htm
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:19 am
It is true i brought i ticket with these people from Melbourne to Toronto and when i called the airline to confirm for the 4 time i found out that my ticket had been purchased on a fraudulent credit card and it was not valid. Do not trust these people at all and when i called them it went strtait threw to a voice mail. i challenge these people to prove they are innocent if you are contact me