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Alec Baldwin’s family hustled by fake Statue of Liberty tour operator

Jack Donaghy would never fall for this ruse.

“30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin was hustled by a fake Statue of Liberty tour operator while out sightseeing with his wife, Hilaria, and their kids.

Baldwin said in an Instagram post that the family shelled out more than $40 per ticket for a tour of Liberty Island — but instead found themselves being escorted toward a bus bound for New Jersey.

“I kid you not. We paid. Then we read the tickets,” he raged in the post.

“NO ON [sic] EVER MENTIONED NEW F***ING JERSEY!!!”

Baldwin, upset over being bamboozled, went on to explain the family instead opted for the Staten Island Ferry, which offers a view of Lady Liberty — for free.

“This is a scam,” Baldwin wrote. “Take the SI Ferry. It’s the best ride in NY.”

He posted an image of his ticket, which reads, “Tours R US: See NY From The Water.” The destination on the ticket was “Liberty, NJ.”

Hilaria then posted a photo of her, Alec and three of their four children on the deck of the ferry.

Bogus ticket sellers have hawked scam passes near Battery Park for years. The Post in 2015 exposed how scammers charged gullible tourists up to $200 for a ticket to the Staten Island Ferry — which, again, is free.

A reporter spotted hustlers — wearing blue, official-looking “SJQ Sightseeing” jackets — bilking tourists.

A 2016 city law requires vendors to have a license and wear, it but scofflaws abound.

Four “Liberty” vendors have been arrested this year, and the bogus ticket sellers were asked to leave the park in August.

Just a month earlier, a state assemblywoman was accosted by a pack of unruly fake ticket salesmen.

Yuh-Line Niou, who represents the Chinatown district, said the ticket-hockers were blocking the Battery Park exit of the Bowling Green 4/5 station when she politely asked them to move.

“I was like, ‘Can you guys not block the way?’ He’s like, ‘F–k you.’ He called me a ‘whore,’ he called me a ‘bitch,’ ” the lawmaker told The Post.

She said cops who witnessed the harassment ignored her pleas for help — claiming the mayor told them not to intervene.