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Sites have been advertising and selling non-existent tickets to events held in around Europe ncluding Spain, France and Germany, according to Reg Walker of Iridium Security. Scam ticket websites have been a growing problem in the UK. Some claim to offer tickets for sold-out events but then fail to deliver the items. Others supply e-tickets that are not accepted at the festival gates. The Metropolitan Police's central e-crime unit said that at the height of last summer's festival season it closed down more than 100 sites in one month - citing greater vigilance from festival organisers and police investigators, and co-operation from some domain operators. However this was prompting the criminals to target new markets, said Mr Walker, who works at large music events including T in the Park and the Isle of Wight Festival, as well as for the O2. Read More at the BBC Related Articles: Online ticket retailer Seatwave beats postal strike through HMV partnership Seatwave and UK music retailer, HMV, have joined up with Seatwave in launching an in-store music ticket box office. The partnership will allow customers to buy and sell tickets in HMV right up to the day of the event. Seatwave will also launch an online ticket exchange for HMV.
"We see a great... Eventim Tickets are now also on MySpace! A deal between CTS Eventim AG, Europe's market leader in the
primary ticketing market and MySpace, the world's largest music platform will
now have MySpace's users able to buy tickets directly from the primary ticketing
company under http://www.myspace.com/ticketshop.
CTS Eventim Sees Rising Profit Next Year
CTS Eventim, Europe's main player in the primary ticket market which also provides live entertainment, is confident of growing both its sales and profit next year despite the economic crisis, its chief executive told Boersen-Zeitung on Saturday.
French Football Federation to Try and Block Tickets To avoid a flood of Irish fans at the Stade de France, November 18, in the second leg of World Cup 2010 countdown, the French Football Federation (FFF) is banning the sale of tickets on the Internet. A measure that is easier said than done.
Mojo Concerts and 'Black Market' Secondary Tickets - Hypocrisy Rules the Day
by Richard Kastelein
OP/ED - "The seller defines the price at Ticket Trade, not Mojo Concerts," states the site. I guess that's why two tickets to Rammstein cost over €600 euro on Mojo Concerts aka Live Nation's 'Black Market', secondary ticketing site at Tickettrade. The hypocrisy of a... One Million World Cup Soccer Tickets Go on Sale Another one million 2010 World Cup tickets are available and Africans are encouraged to buy. This was the message at the launch of the third ticketing phase in Johannesburg yesterday.
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It appears that UK fraudsters running scam websites are turning their attentions to European music fans, according to a recent BBC report by 