Scam ticket fraudster sentenced to jail NEWS
A man from London has been jailed for almost two years for running an illegal tickets business that defrauded event-goers out of £4m.
A man from London has been jailed by Southwark Crown Court for almost two years, for running an illegal tickets business that defrauded event-goers out of £4m.
The 42-year old man named David Spanton from Holloway in North London, was jailed after he pleaded guilty to money laundering and obtaining credit while bankrupt. Spanton pocketed almost £4m from the public, through illegal ticket websites that claimed to sell sports and concert tickets. Evidence of the ticket sales were found at his address, where he was arrested by Police.
He had already been disqualified in 2009 from running a company for fifteen years after operating similar schemes in the past, yet he continued to run the websites in order to launder money.
The BBC, who reported the news, said that one of the victims said that she had spent £750 trying to buy concert tickets for Take That. Spanton replied by email that their allocation of tickets hadn't been successful, so there was nothing they could do. His company kept her money instead of returning it to her.
It has been reported that Spanton set up Ticket Index, an online ticketing company to sell fake tickets for the Take That Progress Tour. Customers buying tickets through the site purchased tickets that were never delivered. Police were forced to investigate after they were flooded with complaints about the website in 2011.
Source: BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19906603)
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