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"[quote name='Markland' date='16th Jun 2012 10:57 post='3~203252'#] 1 person in 12 in the UK is affected by ticket fraud"
 

Actually, it is only a guesstimate by the OFT that one in twelve tickets for music festitvals is fake.  Yes, I know that's one in twelve too many, but we must get these things in perspective.

Anyone who only reads the Red Tops would be forgiven for thinking that the phone-hacking scandal is about what the latest pop singer said to her boyfriend.  People who are more interested in current affairs realise this story is actually about how much influence a newspaper baron has on government policy.  That is something which affects 100% of the population - and that isn't a guesstimate, that's a fact.  So, if the police spend more man-power on that than anything else it's in the interest of us all.

One in 12 music festival tickets fake, says OFT
Duped fans lose average of £80
07 July 2010


Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is warning that one in 12 tickets sold for all UK music festivals are fakes.

According to the consumer watchdog, highly organised, mafia-style gangs are using websites that mimic those used by both bands and festivals in order to dupe music fans. The figures - from an unpublished study of ticket frauds at all of last year's music festivals - also reveals that people deceived lost an average of £80.

The above is pasted from the "Which" website. Don't shoot me - as I said, it's only a guesstimate. I'm always suspicious of surveys which haven't questioned me or anyone I know !!

This is slightly misleading.  I doubt if one person in twelve in the UK has ever even bought a ticket, never mind been affected by ticket fraud.  Perhaps it should read "1 person in 12 in the UK who has bought a festival ticket is affected by ticket fraud".  Otherwise it looks like 5 million people have been affected.  Somehow I don't think this is correct.

The figures quoted were for one year only (2009) - I don't think 5,000,000 is correct!!