{"id":13834,"date":"2016-05-21T06:01:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/football-and-music-fans-warned-over-rise-in-fake-ticket-sales\/"},"modified":"2016-05-21T06:16:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T23:16:42","slug":"football-and-music-fans-warned-over-rise-in-fake-ticket-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/football-and-music-fans-warned-over-rise-in-fake-ticket-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Football and music fans warned over rise in fake ticket sales"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nProfits from the crime estimated at more than \u00a35m, and LGA says: \u2018If the price seems too good to be true, it\u2019s probably a scam\u2019Football and music fans are being warned not to fall prey to an increasingly common and highly profitable crime \u2013 the sale of counterfeit or non-existent tickets.Fans of One Direction, Take That and Lady Gaga are among the victims who have paid thousands of pounds for tickets for sold-out shows only to discover the tickets were forgeries or did not exist. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Profits from the crime estimated at more than \u00a35m, and LGA says: \u2018If the price...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-3B8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8664,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/social-media-users-warned-over-rise-in-online-ticket-fraud\/","url_meta":{"origin":13834,"position":0},"title":"Social media users warned over rise in online ticket fraud","date":"March 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Internet security experts urge music and sports fans not to post photos of their tickets on Facebook and TwitterOnline ticket fraud leapt by 55% in 2015 as criminals increasingly made use of social media to rip off music and sports fans, according to new research.More than a fifth of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13096,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-the-ticket-touts-get-away-with-bleeding-fans-dry\/","url_meta":{"origin":13834,"position":1},"title":"How the ticket touts get away with bleeding fans dry","date":"May 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Special report: Resale sites are dominated by touts who buy thousands of tickets and sell them on at exorbitant prices. 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