Overview
- At least 5,000 UK fans were scammed out of over £2 million while trying to purchase tickets for Oasis' highly anticipated 2025 reunion tour.
- Fraudsters primarily targeted fans via fake ticket listings on Meta platforms, with Facebook being the most commonly exploited site.
- Lloyds Bank reports average losses of £436 per victim, with some individuals losing as much as £1,700 to these scams.
- The UK Competition and Markets Authority has launched a formal investigation into Ticketmaster's use of dynamic pricing and sales transparency during the ticketing process.
- Oasis' reunion tour, their first in over 15 years, has seen extraordinary demand, with Ticketmaster selling more than 900,000 tickets despite platform outages and buyer frustrations.