Bank Holiday ticket resale warning: 'I paid £90 then she blocked me'

Music lovers are warning against buying tickets for sold-out Bank Holiday gigs from resellers on social media after they fell victim to scams.

Jasmine, 22, saw tickets to a party at Thorpe Park being d for sale on X on the morning of the event. She and her friend each sent £90 by bank transfer to two different sellers but did not receive the tickets.

Another woman paid someone on X £60 for two tickets to an RnB event in London last Bank Holiday weekend only to be blocked.

It comes as the UK's scam reporting service Action Fraud and consumer group Which? say fraudsters are increasingly using Bank Holiday demand for tickets to steal money. The BBC has asked X for a comment.

Jasmine said she was scammed after searching on X for tickets to 1Way X Aura Thorpe Park on 15 March.

"I saw this girl with 1,000 followers. We started talking, said we needed two tickets. She sent us screenshots which made us feel that she had the tickets," she told the BBC.

"She said, 'Can you just send [the money] to my friend's ":[]}