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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned of a raft of scams targeting soccer fans.
The scams are heating up as the Australian women’s soccer team, the Matildas, will be facing England in the semi-finals of the Women’s World Cup on Wednesday (16 August).
“Understandably, Australians are inspired by the phenomenal success of the Matildas, but fans should be very careful when last-minute ticket shopping for hugely popular events such as the World Cup finals,” ACCC deputy chair Catriona Lowe said in a statement.
“We are already seeing initial reports of scam activity, particularly on Facebook, where scammers are responding to posts from people looking for tickets and using compromised accounts to sell non-existent tickets.”
“There have also been reports of scammers claiming there is a problem with the payment and asking for it to be made again,” Ms Lowe added.
The ACCC recommends that fans only buy tickets from authorised sellers and not from any site whose URL starts with http: – only trust secure sites whose addresses begin with https:.
Scammers are also selling access to alleged live streams of the match.
“This is a relatively new scam that has been circulating on social media, where would-be spectators are prompted to click a link and enter their credit card details to subscribe to the live-streaming service,” Ms Lowe said.
“In most cases, scammers steal the credit card details and fail to deliver the content signed up for.”
David Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years, and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career. He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security, especially when it lets him talk about Lego.
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