Ticket fraud leaves British fans duped out of £1.3m
Nearly 3,000 scam complaints registered in six months, says Action Fraud.
Consumers were cheated out of nearly £1.3m in the six months to the end of October as a result of spiralling entertainment and sport ticket fraud.
With 2,885 reports registered with Action Fraud covering the six months to the end of October – and a total loss of nearly £1.3m – consumers were found to have suffered an average loss of £444.
A large number of cases related to two companies, Circle Tickets and GetSporting.com, involving concerts by Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, AC/DC, Fleetwood Mac, Foo Fighters and One Direction as well as key festivals and the Rugby world cup . Thousands of music fans were left out of pocket after buying fake concert tickets from, for example, Circle Tickets – an online seller that has since disappeared.