AFF Cup 2018 Final Second Leg: How to distinguish real and fake tickets

Coach Park Hang-seo’s team in the first leg at Bukit Jalil Stadium had a draw and scored 2 away goals. This result increased the demand for tickets from Vietnamese fans, inadvertently pushing up ticket prices very high.

According to the announcement of VFF, in the second leg of the AFF Cup 2018 final between Vietnam and Malaysia at My Dinh Stadium, only 10,300 tickets will be sold online on the federation's ticket sales sites.

That is too little compared to the demand of people to enjoy the match directly on the field, so the ticket brokers have had the opportunity to push up the ticket prices on the black market, in addition to a series of illegal business tricks of the scammers. Among them are fake tickets, a large number of tickets with the form very similar to real tickets have been printed in bulk and offered at extremely attractive prices.

By using sophisticated tricks and offering prices more reasonable than the current black market prices, the fake ticket sellers have fooled many people, most of whom have never held a real ticket and are gullible, so they easily fall into the trap and indirectly help the sellers illegally collect a huge amount of money.

Although fake tickets are printed very sophisticatedly and are easy to fool, if you pay attention to the suggestions below, many people will probably avoid "losing money and getting sick".

How to distinguish real and fake tickets

Facebook user Oanh Nguyen shared how to distinguish between fake and real tickets on her personal page:

1. The real ticket will have the words FINAL ROUNDS change color when you tilt it in different directions. The fake ticket is reprinted so it is impossible to make that word have color.

2. The anti-counterfeit silver foil stamp along the tear-off line of the real ticket is printed seamlessly, stuck very firmly, looks smart and sharp, if you look closely you will see the AFF logo. As for the fake ticket, it will be printed with random images that are not uniform and are stuck superficially, easy to peel off.

3. Colored lines - Color pattern (2 color strips with AFF logo printed very sharply. Fake tickets are reprinted so they are pale and unclear.

4. The paper quality of the real ticket is very high quality, the paper is a bit rough. The fake ticket is reprinted so the paper quality will be much shinier and smoother than the real ticket.

5. On the front of a real ticket, when you hold the ticket up to the light, you will see the AFF logo. The fake ticket does not show that.

Genuine tickets, when shining a purple light on the back of the ticket, will show short glowing lines zigzagging on the ticket!

Hopefully with the above sharing, fans will be more vigilant to get real tickets in hand to enter the stadium or other ways to enjoy the final match of AFF Cup 2018 in a healthy and joyful way.