illegal “spec” tickets. Our latest probe into the site has found that a handful of mysterious traders on the rip-off secondary sales site are behind up to 80 per cent of all the tickets listed for many big shows.
And we can reveal that the tickets are being listed speculatively by unknown, untraceable sellers who have not bought them from a primary seller.
Spec selling is fraud and can bring a jail sentence. Fraudulent listings account for between £2million to £4million on any given day.
Our investigation took us to the doorstep of a retired couple’s bungalow in Dundee, the supposed nerve centre of one massive tout seller on Viagogo, HE Events.The shady seller has listed hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of tickets in the UK, US, Asia.
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