More than 100 Green Day fans who purchased tickets to the band's sold-out gig at Manchester, N.H.'s Verizon Wireless Arena, US, April 29 learned a valuable lesson: buyer beware of online ticket purchases through unauthorized sellers.
Apparently, fake tickets had been printed for the concert using an altered portable document format (PDF) file used by Ticketmaster, according to the arena's Jason Perry. The bogus tickets were then sold either on eBay, through a ticket agency, or directly to a third party.document.write(unescape("