Oasis followers collectively misplaced greater than £2m to ticket scams for the band’s long-awaited reunion tour, a significant financial institution has warned.
The UK group introduced the tour final yr, with it set to start in simply over two months time.
Nevertheless, amid the frenzy for tickets, Lloyds Banking Group mentioned a lot of clients fell sufferer to ticket scams, shedding £436 on common.
The financial institution made the calculations primarily based on fraud studies from its personal clients.
Would-be concertgoers attempting to get their palms on the tickets already confronted points round dynamic pricing.
And Oasis followers accounted for greater than half of all reported ticket scams to this point this yr, Lloyds added.
The largest quantity misplaced was mentioned to be £1,700, with individuals aged between 35 and 44 almost definitely to be scammed.
Edinburgh, Warrington and Manchester had the best numbers of rip-off victims, with the highest 10 places total making up 1 / 4 of circumstances, the banking group mentioned.
Liz Ziegler, fraud prevention director at Lloyds, mentioned: “The Oasis tour is the most recent goal for ticket scammers, with tens of millions of kilos of followers’ cash stolen earlier than the gigs even kick off.
“If you’re asked to pay via bank transfer, particularly by a seller you’ve found on social media, that should immediately set alarm bells ringing.”
Lisa Webb, a client regulation knowledgeable at Which? mentioned: “Scammers are always looking for new ways to part people from their hard-earned cash and unfortunately, Oasis tickets being in such high demand has created a perfect storm for criminals.”
Listed here are the highest 10 areas the place the reported rip-off victims lived, in response to Lloyds Banking Group:
EdinburghWarringtonManchesterNewcastle upon TyneSheffieldGlasgowNottinghamBirminghamPlymouthNewport
