Linda Wallace, Brightsun Travel Internet scam for basketball tickets Manchester United Kingdom

I was looking on Craigslist.com for NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament Final Four tickets, to be held in April 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. I found a listing, selling four premium tickets for an unbelievably low price of $300 each. The tickets would usually sell for about $2000 each, so I was interested and responded to the listing.

Here's the email that came back to me:

fromLinda Wallace

dateMon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:59 AM
subjectRE: UCLA Final Four Tickets - $1200
mailed-bybrightsun-travelling.com

hide details 9:59 AM (9 hours ago) Reply

Hello

I have these tickets in hand and they are still for sale. My name is Linda Wallace and I am in Manchester, United Kingdom. I am looking to sell these tickets because I am not in the US at this time and I will not be there for the game. I work for the travel agency Brightsun Travel in Manchester and I am selling the tickets for my company. My company will pay for the delivery fee and we will use the overnight delivery service to get you the tickets in less than 2 days.
We bought the tickets because we tried to make these tickets a part of a vacation package and sell the tickets along with a vacation to the US.

Unfortunatelly the ideea didn't catch up so we are now selling the tickets.

If you are still interested I am ready to move forward with this sale as soon as we reach terms.

Obviously we need a safe way to complete this deal, one that will allow each one of us to make sure we receive what we are after as fast as possible and as easily as internet deals can be.

I have found a way for us to complete the deal safely and fast, and in this way you will receive the tickets in less than 2 days, if you can take care of your part of the deal the same day as well.

The solution is provided by an international shipping company called TNT which is similar to Fedex, DHL or UPS, and they will handle and delivery of the tickets as well as the payment part.

With this procedure I will only receive the payment for the tickets after the game, after you receive them and see that they are genuine.

Please click on the link below to the TNT website to see how we can complete the deal safely and fast directly from the website of the company where the procedure is explained.

http://shippingnextday.com/about.tnt/index/details.html

Like I said, I will pay for an overnight delivery so you will receive them in time.

Let me know what you think

Linda

Brightsun Travel
www.brightsun-travelling.com
Address : Basil House, 105 - 107 Portland Street, Manchester, M1 6DF, United Kingdom
Tel : +44 161 279 9012

When you click on the link provided, you get a webpage that looks perfectly legitimate. It talks about a company called TNT International Express Third Party Delivery that will take the product from the seller and money from the buyer, certify that all is ok, and then only release the money to the seller after you have had the chance to receive and inspect the product.

Luckily, I did an internet search, and found a similar rip off report listed here by a person on the East Coast. Thankfully I did not send any money.

DON'T FALL FOR THIS!!!

Ticketseeker
Orange, California
U.S.A.