Oasis reunion tour ticket scams cost fans more than £2million, says bank

Lloyds Banking Group has revealed that ticket scams for the Oasis reunion tour has cost fans millions of pounds.

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The bank shared the new figures recently, and revealed that fans affected by the ticket scams lost on average £436 per scam. This, it reported, was around £200 more than the average scam relating to ticket sales.

In total, fans collectively have lost an estimated £2million due to the swindles and, based on the number of fraud reports by its own customers, it has been reported that scams centring on Oasis tickets already make up 56 per cent of all concert ticket fraud in 2025.

While those eager to see Noel and Liam Gallagher return to the stage this summer lost an average of £436 to scams, the bank has shared that others lost significantly more, with one in particular losing over £1,700 in attempt to snag a ticket.

Those in the band’s Manchester hometown were worst affected, followed by fans in Edinburgh and Warrington. Of the age ranges, those between 35 and 44 made up 30 per cent of all cases.

“The fact that so many cases start with fake listings on social media, often in violation of the platforms’ own rules, underscores the importance of these companies taking stronger action to tackle scams,” said Liz Zeigler, the Fraud Prevention Director at Lloyds (via Far Out).

Ticket sales for the Oasis shows started to make headlines almost immediately, with fans contending with huge queues due to high demand and hugely inflated prices due to “dynamic” pricing (an automatic surge increase due to demand). Both the CMA and the European Commission are still investigating the issue to see if it broke the law.

Oasis have said that they “at no time had any awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used” in the sale, claiming that “prior meetings between promoters, Ticketmaster and the band’s management resulted in a positive ticket sale strategy, which would be a fair experience for fans, including dynamic ticketing to help keep general ticket prices down as well as reduce touting, the execution of the plan failed to meet expectations.”

The band later announced “a small step towards making amends for the situation” with “a special invitation-only ballot ticket sale strategy” for two additional Wembley gigs on September 27 and 28.

Oasis and Ticketmaster announced in October that they planned to cancel more than 50,000 tickets for the tour that were sold via non-endorsed secondary ticket sites. That process went into action in February, but many fans claimed they had been targeted wrongfully. NME contacted Ticketmaster for a response at the time, and they advised anybody with queries to consult their ‘Oasis Refunds FAQ’ page here.

The UK government has gotten involved too, and launched a consultation at the start of the year into the ticket re-sale market with the aim to “better protect fans, improve access to live events and support the growth of the UK’s world leading live events sector”.

“I thought it’d be a big deal, but I was a bit taken aback by just how much of a big deal it was,” Noel Gallagher said earlier this year, looking at the demand.

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