New Type of Spam/Scam via Eventbrite?

I got the mail above from Eventbrite today, and as far as I can tell, it’s really been sent from Eventbrite, and the links are valid.

So it’s for some show in Belgium somewhere, with a person called Tracy Wells? So I googled, and:

Tracy Wells seems to be some kind of fortune teller scammer? I mean, “spiritual medium”.

Very weird, especially since I’m not in Belgium… but on the other hand, it got me to google her name, so I guess the spam was successful?

OOPS! FOILED AGAIN

[Update next day:]

Next day I got messages from Eventbrite “about” the event — but linking to an AutoPass scam site (AutoPass is a car pass system used here).

So: They first create a fake event on Eventbrite, and then give free tickets to the people they want to spam. And then they start spamming them via Eventbrite, because:

Eventbrite is whitelisted as a known good sender — so these subsequent scam messages aren’t tagged as spam.

It’s kinda clever, eh?

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