Records show Shah’s mother also contacted police, saying she’d lost $36,000 in
the scam, but declined to press charges. Four other metro Atlanta men filed one
theft by deception report on Shah, citing similar lost amounts in ticket purchases.
Posted on 02/01/2019 8:33:06 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - About a dozen Georgians have accused a prominent Gwinnett County businessman of taking off with nearly $1 million in a months-long Super Bowl ticket and business scam.
Records obtained by Channel 2 Action News early Thursday morning show the man’s own mother has accused him of theft tied to the scam, and his wife told Channel 2 investigative reporter Nicole Carr she hasn’t seen him since reporting him missing early this month.
Carr received the tip about Ketan Shah from an alleged victim who lives in Sandy Springs. The man told Carr that Shah, who owns a digital printing shop and sits on numerous community boards, took off with $20,000 and never delivered premium Super Bowl tickets.
“It’s just crazy, mind-blowing,” Alan Tartt told Carr, citing Shah’s “squeaky-clean” business reputation. “Everything seemed legit.”
In November, text messages show Tartt began communicating with Shah, with whom he connected through a mutual friend. He and two others told police they started making $5,000 payments to Shah as regular deposits on $20,000 worth of tickets.
But when it came time to meet late this month, Tartt said he couldn’t reach Shah. He went to Sandy Springs police, the FBI and his bank to file reports.
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There’s a sucker born every minute!
Probably a psychopath —
“You were dumb to let me rip you off like that. You should thank me because I taught you a valuable lesson. Maybe now you won’t be stupid and let people steal your money. Seriously, I should charge you for this lesson. The least you could do is thank me.”
I imagine the culprit will turn out to be one or more of the big three: drugs, women and gambling.
I’m a little confused by this. Was he selling, at market prices, tickets and access that he didn’t have? Were he and the others involved in a scalping conspiracy?
And I wonder how many similar scams are going on.
People who fall for these sports scams are so stupid.
They should be investing with us Nigerian princes.
So, the question that is unanswered here is, was this a scam where he claimed to have tickets and didn't, or was this a scam where he said he could make the tickets (high-tech printing business) and didn't deliver? In other words, are these people truly victims (albeit stupid victims), or are they co-conspirators?
celebrate diversity
Records show Shah’s mother also contacted police, saying she’d lost $36,000 in
the scam, but declined to press charges. Four other metro Atlanta men filed one
theft by deception report on Shah, citing similar lost amounts in ticket purchases.
If the cops want to find him, they probably should start checking flights from H-J or Charlotte to whatever third world country his people came from. He probably booked it in his real name using a foreign issued passport.
That’s the point I was trying to make. You put it better.
Probably Iran or Afghanistan
Odd thing is, he would be right.
Greed gets you every time.
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