Tickets to the six concerts at the Central Harbourfront between April 14 and 23 were sold out back in February as the band announced their return to Hong Kong after four years.

The fans who fell victim were told they could make internal reservations for the tickets at the original prices plus a HK$120 service fee through a middlewoman named Cheng.

Yet, the fans failed to obtain the tickets days before and even after the concerts ended. Neither did they get any refund.

They found out about other victims and together opened a group on social media.

According to one of the fans named Cheung, she said Cheng told her that the internal ticket reservations were made through a man who kept all tickets in a share-space studio in San Po Kong and claimed the key keeper was on the mainland at that time.

However, the victims headed to the address provided by Cheng only to find that studio didn’t exist at all.

Some victims then successfully asked out Cheng and the man for a meeting at a Tsim Sha Tsui cafe and confronted the duo for a refund. The man claimed he would apply for a loan to refund the victims, but the victims believed the man was only stalling and filed a police report.

Police said some 19 people argued over ticket issues at a cafe on Salisbury Road as they received the report around 11 pm Tuesday. They then arrived and arrested Cheng, 29, and a 34-year-old man named Ng for obtaining property by deception.