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The Money Edit
The Money Edit
Business
Tom Higgins

Festival ticket scam warnings – how to protect yourself

friends at a festival or a music concert at night

Festival and concert-goers must be on guard against ticket scams this summer or else risk losing hundreds of pounds to ticketing scams, Lloyds Bank has warned, after a huge surge in the number of ticket fraud reports.

With the demand to attend live events soaring in the aftermath of the pandemic, the number of cases of people being scammed, when buying concert tickets, rocketed by 529% over the past year. Victims lost £110 on average, according to the bank.

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