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SCALPER BANNED ON CAMPUS
District alerts campus community to unknown male selling tickets under false pretense
BY KATIE PORTER
“He’s getting
people where
they’re most
vulnerable
because they
want to support
the school.”
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fraudulently,” Nashua said.
Students told about the incident said they
would be wary if someone tried selling them
something on campus.
“I’m not going to buy anything, no matter
how convincing they are. I always feel like
they’re ripping you off,” sophomore Maria
Alvarez said.
Tyler Nguyen, a student at SAC and
SCC, said economics professor Alex Taber
warned his class about the scalper, who
interrupted Taber’s lecture last spring, asking to give a short presentation. He spotted
the man last month and reported him.
“I saw him walking down the hall and go
into a classroom so I followed. I watched
him at the front and when the class was
over I approached the instructor and he left
quickly,” Taber said.
Winter said there have been no reports
of the scalper at Santa Ana College but
encouraged students to report any sightings
to security officials.
“We are relying on students and staff as
our eyes and ears,” Winter said.
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SUSPECTED SCALPER
An unknown male prohibited from being
on campus collected money and credit
card information from people at Santiago
Canyon College last month, officials said.
He was posing as an ASG member selling
fundraiser tickets, despite being banned for
doing the same thing earlier this year.
“Basically he was a ticket scalper attempting to sell tickets. He was trying to make a
buck in the wrong place and way,” Interim
District Safety and Security Supervisor
Alistair Winter said.
While the tickets he was selling to an
event at an L.A. comedy club were legitimate, they had nothing to do with ASG.
A district safety alert was sent out Oct 28.
After the notice was circulated, staff and
faculty at many other Southern California
coll Y