07/23/2023
Teenage scalper who scammed 10,000 Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee concertgoers in Peru is captured in Madrid after blowing $132,000 of clients' money on vacations and expensive sneakers
She and her network allegedly set up a cloned website of the Peruvian-based ticket outlet, Teleticket, and promoted her illicit operation on social media, selling tickets for as much as $390 between May and October 2022.
Her network sold fake tickets to 7,000 customers who attempted to catch Daddy Yankee's farewell tour shows on October 18 and 19, 2022.
At least 50 customers presented the same ticket for one of the concert dates. Another 367 concertgoers purchased the same ticket for one of the shows.
One customer told the police that she purchased four tickets through the official Teleticket site, but that she was denied entrance because all of her tickets had been duplicated.
The scammers also conned an additional 3,000 customers into buying tickets for Bad Bunny's show on November 13.
Authorities estimate that Cabanillas made at least $132,000 off the fake tickets to the Daddy Yankee and Bad Bunny concerts.
Cabanillas bolted for Europe shortly before the Daddy Yankee shows and in December went on Panamericana TV to let any person affected by the scam that she wouldn't be refunding the money because she had spent it.
'I accept my mistake, I scammed a lot of people without measuring the consequences,' she said at the time. 'I apologize to the people that I have done a lot of damage (to) … Unfortunately, they will not be able to recover their money because I have spent it.'