--- title: Adele's Manager Impersonated in Kendrick Lamar Ticket Scam description: A couple was arrested over the weekend after allegedly posing as Adele's manager in an attempt to get free tickets to see Kendrick Lamar. canonical: https://time.com/4772375/adele-manger-impersonated-kendrick-lamar-ticket-scam/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-09T18:08:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:28.385Z og:title: Couple Allegedly Posed as Adele's Manager to Score Freebies og:description: Police were able to lure the pair into a sting with Kendrick Lamar tickets og:url: https://time.com/4772375/adele-manger-impersonated-kendrick-lamar-ticket-scam/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Couple Allegedly Posed as Adele's Manager to Score Freebies twitter:description: Police were able to lure the pair into a sting with Kendrick Lamar tickets twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Couple Allegedly Posed as Adele's Manager in Scam to Score Kendrick Lamar Tickets > Sponsored content. 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Miami-Dade police detective told the [_Miami Herald_](http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article149283059.html)that they were able to lure Justin Jackson — who also goes by the aliases Jayce Lii and Justin Lii — and his wife Angel Lii into a sting when Lamar’s record label, Interscope Records, became suspicious of their request and informed the real Dickins. The pair has allegedly been impersonating Dickins for over a year to scam tickets and merchandise from artists such as Rihanna, Usher, Drake, Katy Perry, Chris Brown and Pharrell Williams. “Mr. Dickins has finally breathed a sign of relief and hopes this fraud against him will stop once and for all,” said his Miami attorney, Brian Bieber. “The defendants did consistently leave a blueprint of their fraud for the detectives to find. Essentially, we have a pair of dumb criminals.” Jackson previously served two years in prison for convincing a New York boutique to loan him $2.4 million in jewelry while posing as a rep for Madonna — which he then sold to a pawn shop. 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