Ticket scams have increased by more than 500 per cent in the past year, as buying tickets to concerts for major artists like Harry Styles and Lewis Capaldi were typically targeted by scammers often selling tickets to sold-out events at cheap prices.
According to research by Lloyds, reported cases of people being scammed when buying tickets soared by 529 per cent, between March 2022 and February 2023, as reported by the Guardian.
