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