Oasis reunion tour: Ticket scams rampant [Video]

LONDON, United Kingdom –

Hundreds of Oasis fans are looking back in anger after falling victim to a “landslide” of ticket selling scams.

The fans have lost £346 (US$449) on average to fraudsters ahead of the British band’s reunion tour next year, with some losing as much as £1,000 (US$1,298), U.K. lender Lloyds Banking Group said Tuesday.

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Lloyds said in a press release that an analysis of fraud reports lodged by its customers in the month following Oasis’ August announcement of its comeback tour also showed that more than 90 per cent of the scams began with adverts on social media and that the “vast majority” started on Facebook.

A spokesperson for Meta (META) told CNN that Facebook’s parent company is “continually investing in protections against fraud on (its) platforms.”

“We advise our community to report any scams …