Social media sites must do more to tackle online ticket fraud, after being used for nearly half of all such scams last year, councils have warned. Sports and music fans have been warned by Trading Standards teams to beware of fake tickets for sale this summer. Major events, including Euro 2016 and music festivals, are […]
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Man jailed for part in £1 million ticket fraud
Greenwich man has been jailed for his part in an “elaborate” £1 million train ticket fraud in which a stolen machine was used to forge tickets. Robertas Vaitkevicius, of Uplands Close, was one member of a five-person gang who sold around 15,000 fake weekly zone 1-6 travelcards between January 2012 and October 2013 when they […]
Ticket fraud targeted in operation on buses
Members of Lancashire County Council Safer Travel team recently carried out an operation with Stagecoach around fraudulent ticket use on the buses. Over the last few weeks a number of fraudulent tickets have been found in circulation on several of the Stagecoach services, operating around in and around the Preston area. Link to article
Ticket fraud does happen on secondary sites
Ticket fraud is on the rise and the secondary ticketing sites are being utilised by the fraudsters, or so says a report by Radio 4 consumer affairs programme ‘You And Yours’. Link to article
BTP launch crackdown on ticket fraud
British Transport Police (BTP) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Safer Transport Command have launched an operation to reduce fraud at Stratford station. Working with Greater Anglia and TfL, officers checked passenger’s tickets and made 14 arrests. 11 people had counterfeit tickets, one was arrested for travel fraud, one for immigration offences and one for […]
Operation Podium report on Olympic ticket fraud
The two machines in the Tesco car park, Solent Road, Havant, were cordoned off by police early this morning. Members of the public had noticed a man they believed was acting suspiciously and reported the matter to staff. Link to article
Fans hit by Wembley ticket fraud
A number of Bradford City fans who bought their League Two play-off final tickets online claim they have been victims of fraud, including one with a £930 rogue charge on her credit card. Supporters took to internet forums and social networking sites yesterday to complain that money had been taken from their bank and credit […]
Bogus E-mail Impersonating Delta Airlines
Internauts are suggested to neglect opening files attached to doubtful-looking scam e-mail that seems to be coming from Delta Airlines, said softpedia.com on March 6, 2013. Link to article
Blue badges and bus passes confiscated
Almost 70,000 blue badges and 100,000 bus passes have been confiscated as part of a huge drive to detect fraud by cross-checking official records. Link to article
Met calls for more regulation to stop ticket crime
The Metropolitan Police have called for new regulations and possible new legislation to tackle ticket fraud. The police authority highlights the issues around ‘ticket crime’ in a new report that capitalises on the work it undertook as part of Operation Podium to crack down on anyone selling tickets illegally for the London 2012 Olympics. Link […]