Lloyd’s: Thousands of Taylor Swift fans hit by UK ticket scams


Fans queueing before a Taylor Swift concert in Singapore recently. An estimated 3,000 fans in the UK have probably fallen victim to scams involving fake Facebook postings or advertisements offering Swift’s UK concert tickets since last July. — AFP

LONDON: Thousands of fans of pop megastar Taylor Swift have been hit by a wave of concert ticket scams ahead of her tour in the UK later this year, a British bank said on April 17.

At least 3,000 victims are likely to have been tricked into buying fake tickets since July, with over £1mil (RM5.94mil) being lost to fraudsters so far, Lloyds Bank said.

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