Oasis reunion ticket scams have cost fans more than £2million, research shows

Oasis fans have lost millions of pounds as a result of ticket scams for their reunion tour, Lloyds Banking Group has revealed.

New figures show that fans affected by scams lost on average £436 per individual scam, some £200 more than the average scam for ticket sales.

That’s a collective loss of £2million, with research also showing that scams linked to Oasis tickets – undoubtedly owing to the huge demand – make up 56 per cent of all concert ticket fraud in 2025.

In individual cases, one person also lost over £1,700 when trying to nab a ticket for the shows.

Those from Manchester were said to be worst affected, followed by fans in Edinburgh and Warrington. In terms of 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.

Liam and Noel Gallagher will play their first gigs together in 16 years at UK venues including London’s Wembley Stadium and Manchester’s Heaton Park this summer, with the tour later going onto Australia, North America, South America and Asia.

The sale of tickets was massively blighted by the issue of dynamic pricing, which the band claimed to have no knowledge of.

Recent research from Spotify also revealed that searches for the band increased by 785 per cent in the wake of last year’s reunion announcement. In the week that followed, fans also added ‘Wonderwall’ to more than 511,000 user-generated playlists on the platform.