How to cash on Baahubali 2 fever? Here is the idea cyber criminals followed and made Lakhs of money in quick time. A new ticketing portal named newtickets.in sprung to headlines displaying the sale of Baahubali 2 aka Bahubali - The Conclusion tickets in various cities within Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and in Overseas too.
As Baahubali 2 is nearing for release and there is huge demand for tickets, enthusiastic cinema lovers bought their tickets purchased from this portal. The website is so professionally designed with huge database giving a complete list of theaters in two Telugu states, other major cities in India and abroad. This made netizens to believe in the authenticity and made their payments using debit, credit cards.
Keeping up the buyers faith intact, portal owners have also sent confirmatory messages for those who made online payment transaction. Finally when the portal fell into the eye of Cyber Crime wing, the scam is exposed. Reports say, the domain booking and IP address is made from Dubai.
Meanwhile, Prasad Multiplex and other theater managements officially confirmed on newtickets.in has no connection or agreements signed with the exhibition network. What's more surprising is, the portal is still live on net.