Scalpers selling fake Bowery Ballroom (Ticketweb) tickets?

Josh wrote in with this story from the Ryan Adams show @ Bowery Ballroom Friday night:

I got them from a scalper outside around midnight. The random guy (who looked oddly like Sammy L. Jackson) and I walked around the corner on to bowery where he sold me a pair of tix. Normally, at smaller venues, i’d ask the guys at the door if they were real or not, but i figured the bowery wouldn’t really be in to that, so stupidly i bought them. the tix looked great, had the hologram and everything.

the guy probably could’ve bought a pair of tix for the price it took him to make the forgery… anyways, after waiting in the rain we get inside, the woman downstairs rips the tix in half and tells me they’re fake. apparently they have some kind of image or color inside the paper, and when you rip it in half you can see some kind of identifier.

well mine didn’t have that. so cheers to the guy for making a pretty awesome forgery.
the bowery folks agreed to let me pay face value. which was pretty nice.

Has this ever happened to anyone else at Bowery Ballroom, or at another venue serviced by Ticketweb?