A gambling addict has allegedly conned an Oasis mad family out of £1,480 in a fake ticket racket.
Marnie Dillon was left “physically shaking” after she found out her family’s tickets were in fact not real.
The 35-year-old grew up listening to the Gallagher brothers’ music and spent days on end trying to get tickets for their reunion tour this summer.
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The financial controller was over the moon when she spotted a friend reselling four tickets on Facebook.
As a special birthday gift and a present for Marnie being six years sober from drugs and alcohol, her parents forked out £1,480 to get the trio – and her younger brother, Bobby, 22 – to Wembley.
The 35-year-old and her three family members were set to walk down Wembley way in their parkas and bucket hats last Wednesday (30 Jul).
Sadly, three weeks before the event, they discovered they had to cancel due to Jack, 22 – Bobby’s twin brother – graduating from university the same day.
Not wanting to miss out on his special moment, the family decided to sell the tickets for the same price to some close friends.
That’s when Marnie received a devastating email from the reseller stating that the tickets were a scam.
“I was physically shaking, I was absolutely mortified,” Marnie from Essex, told Need To Know.
“We’re all absolutely devastated, you never think it’s going to happen to you.
“We even bought from a trusted source and still got scammed, it’s put us off for good.
“I grew up listening to Oasis, my dad always had them on in the car – when we found out they were coming back everyone was trying to grab a ticket.
“I spent the entire day on all my devices with Ticketmaster open, it kept crashing and we couldn’t seem to secure one.
“So when I saw someone I knew selling them on Facebook we jumped at the chance.
“He was working as a reseller for who we now know was a huge scammer – our friend had no idea what this person was doing.
“The reseller informed us that the man was using the money from the tickets to fund his gambling addiction.
“He’s scum.
“I don’t know how he sleeps at night preying on vulnerable people.
“We informed our friends straight away and gave them their money back – they were gutted just like us.
“I reported the fraud to our bank who gave us a full refund within a week.
“It’s not just us who this man has scammed.
“My friends are also in the process of getting refunded – he’s done it to loads of people.
“The family are all sad and really gutted that we never got to go, the whole situation, the whole scam – you’ve got to be careful.”
Jam Press have approached Action Fraud and the Police for a comment.
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