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1 in 12 festival tickets sold are fake

News: 6th July 2010 by Louise Dodgson under Live

Pretty miserable stats declaring that 1 in 12 music fans buying tickets for UK festivals is likely to be duped into purchasing a counterfeit ticket through a fake website. Fake-ticketing websites have been around for a little while but in recent years there has been a boom, and in response to this the Office of Fair Trading have created a website offering guidelines to help music fans avoid being scammed with fake tickets.

Related Links

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/jul/06/fake-websites-defrauding-music-festival-fans

http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/watch_out/Commonscams/ticketscams/


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fake tickets, office of fair trading, festival tickets, fake ticketing websites

 

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