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Reading-Festival-Ticket-Giveaway-Limited-Offer takes you, with a link, to a fake copy of the Reading Festival site. Using all of the festival's images and text, it’s designed to harvest your email address and details, to sell on to spammers and other unscrupulous agencies. Another Facebook page is GUARANTEED-READING-FESTIVAL-TICKET-FOR-EVERY-FAN, which states: “I work for See Tickets, and have been personally allocated 2,500 Reading Festival 2010 tickets to distribute through Facebook, to those unfortunate enough not to get them from our main site at www.seetickets.com” That’s nearly half a million pounds worth of tickets, hardly something that would be given away. In fact it's a way to get you to click through to their cheap money making website. According to Safeconcerts, there’s been a quick response from Facebook who are working to combat the issue. Related Articles: Poor Ticket Sales Bedevil Scottish Festival Industry Poor
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Free festival ticket giveaways and fake festival websites
are just some of the ways scammers are using to infiltrate social networking
and popular ticketing site, Facebook, according to vigilante website,