Fake websites defraud music festival fans

Report reveals that one in 12 tickets sold for UK music festivals is a fake and that the average loss to each fan is £80With a sold-out Lattitude festival set to attract a quarter of a million people from 15-18 July, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is warning that one in 12 tickets sold for all UK music festivals are fakes.The figures – from an unpublished OFT study of ticket frauds at all of last year's music festivals – also reveals that , on average, each person duped lost £80."We esti...

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