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Online scammers target UK festivals’ 2020 virtual events

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coronavirus crisis.According to The Guardian, phishing scams with fake website pages have been targetting music fans who have gone without live events for the most part of this year due to restrictions surrounding mass gatherings.Despite many of the streams being free to access online, the scammers are reported to have launched bogus events and pages in the weeks ahead of the official broadcasts taking place.It’s said that those behind the schemes have also been sharing fake links to the virtual shows on official festival social media accounts.Kevin Tate, the editor of Festival & Events UK, discovered more than 41 illegitimate links to Reading & Leeds as well as 39 fake links to Bristol’s Love Saves the Day while posting the real links to.

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