Recently the official Hamilton the Musical website released a warning to fans to not buy tickets from any unauthorized vender. However, some are not so quick to throw away their shot to see the hottest show on Earth. One woman recently learned the hard way that uncharitable souls will take advantage of Hamilton’s hype in order to make a quick buck. But she wasn’t about to be just another victim. New York’s Danielle Posner and her boyfriend to shot back at the counterfeiters, getting them arrested for selling fake tickets.
Danielle Posner spoke to CBS2 about the fake tickets she bought and the story the counterfeiters tried to sell her:
“This looked real. He had four tickets. He said he and his girlfriend really wanted to go, but the other couple bailed”
Posner was impressed with the quality of the fakes, comparing them to the read deal:
“Full out, legit Ticketmaster ticket. Same back print as a real ticket, same picture, everything looked real.”
Posner’s boyfriend wasn’t buying the story and posed as a buyer to see if the four tickets were still on sale, after Posner had already bought them:
“So he wrote back and said he had the four tickets, and that’s when I got really upset.”
So the couple reached out to the police and set up a sting to have bait the criminal:
“I said I’m going to get him arrested, this is not okay. They found a stack this thick of the same four tickets repeated over and over and over again, so he’s been selling these like crazy.”
