Football fans warned over Premier League ticket scams

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About 6,000 UK football fans fell victim to fraud last season, Lloyds Bank estimated.

It analysed its own fraud figures, and made the estimate about fraud suffered by customers of all banks based on Lloyd’s market share – it has about a fifth of UK current accounts.

That means at least 1,200 Lloyd’s customers were scammed last season.

More than half of the people getting scammed were between 18 and 34 years old.

Its customers lost £177 on average, but for some people it was more than £1,000.

Criminals were most likely to target fans of the biggest teams, and supporters of Arsenal and Liverpool fell victim most often.

About 56% of the scams started on Facebook Marketplace, and a further 26% began on X (formerly Twitter).

Earlier this year Lloyds Bank estimated that Taylor Swift fans lost more than £1m to ticket scammers ahead of her UK tour.


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