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By Julia Lovett-Squires

Arden Scam

Scammers steal Christmas for Jann Arden fan

Dec 10, 2024 | 8:00 AM

For one night only, legendary Canadian songstress Jann Arden is making a stopover in North Battleford on her Christmas Tour, but one unknown fan is feeling ‘Unloved’ after scammers hoodwinked them out of a concert.

“Some poor person was out $400 because they thought they had been to our website and they had not been,” said Kali Weber, the Dekker Centre’s general manager.

The manager said scammers have been creating fake websites and when people Google Jann Arden North Battleford, there are people that pay for their sites to pop up before the official site.

“The person had a hard time describing to me how they got there,” she said.

After asking for them to send the confirmation email to the Dekker Centre for verification, however, it linked back to an address in Pennsylvania.

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“Luckily, their credit card company was made aware of it, and they were hoping to work through that with the fraud section,” added Weber.

The tickets had sold out within two hours back in September when they first went on sale, but the Dekker Centre didn’t learn of this scam until last week. While there is one ticket left, Weber said the fan would have to buy it.

“The only reason that we have one single ticket is because artists always get a set amount of complimentary tickets to use at their discretion and Jann isn’t using all of their tickets,” she said.

They usually only learn if the ticket can go on sale 24 to 48 hours ahead of the show. So, as a result, the fan, who purchased four tickets will not be able to attend the concert Tuesday night.

Upon finding out about the incident, the Dekker Centre released an email warning people about the scam sites and to always go to dekkercentre.com or staff member to purchase tickets. If people are buying tickets off of third-party sites like Marketplace, call the Centre beforehand to see if that person actually has tickets.

“This is going on across Canada, it’s been happening to our friends at the Vic Juba (Community Theatre) all fall,” she said, of the Lloydminster concert hall.

“People are cloning our seating maps,” she said, noting if people have never bought online or visited the centre’s site, they can easily be victimized.

“Scammers and scalpers have been going on forever, they’ve just become more digital as buying tickets has evolved.”

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