{"id":30365,"date":"2024-09-16T21:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T21:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/queens-brian-may-warns-fans-about-backstage-ticket-scam\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T21:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T21:03:48","slug":"queens-brian-may-warns-fans-about-backstage-ticket-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/queens-brian-may-warns-fans-about-backstage-ticket-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s Brian May warns fans about backstage ticket scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-16\/Getty_BrianMay_091624.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Vittorio Zunino Celotto\/Getty Images for Mercury Studios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Queen<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Brian May<\/strong> is warning fans about a scam that has been shared on social media that appears to show him pushing special backstage tickets to his next gig.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">May shared a video <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C_4PIe-Id3Y\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>on Instagram<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> that was originally posted to TikTok,\u00a0where it\u00a0appears as though May is offering 10 people backstage tickets to his next show for $800,\u00a0a markdown from their original price of\u00a0$2,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In big letters, May marks the video as \u201cFAKE!!!\u201d and shares in the caption, \u201cTHIS IS A VILE SCAM &#8212; I was just alerted to this horrible criminal activity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He adds, \u201cI&#8217;ll let you know how I get on stamping out this disgusting attempt to steal money from trusting fans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>May was first alerted to the scam when a fan shared the video, and he commented, \u201cMy God. This is horrific.&#8221; He noted, \u201cI suppose this is now so easy to do &#8211; and there are always people who will sink to any depths to try to make a quick buck. Disgusting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that he was \u201cfeeling violated&#8221; and wrote, \u201cI certainly don&#8217;t feel comfortable or safe in the world as it has become now. Will all have to try to hold onto what is real in our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vittorio Zunino Celotto\/Getty Images for Mercury Studios Queen guitarist Brian May is warning fans about a scam that has been shared on social media that appears to show him pushing special backstage tickets to his next gig.\u00a0 May shared a video on Instagram that was originally posted to TikTok,\u00a0where it\u00a0appears<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/queens-brian-may-warns-fans-about-backstage-ticket-scam\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}