Revellers scammed into paying for tickets to a non-existent New Year's Eve yacht party off Adelaide's coastline will be refunded, online ticketing platform Eventbrite says.
Their money will be refundedSA Police is investigating the incident, but turned up at Glenelg to get on a boat that never arrived.
An Eventbrite spokesman said those who had paid for the $120 tickets through the platform would be refunded today. He had registered a similar, but not identical, business name to the one linked to the scam, and social media accounts promoting the party appear to have copied his profiles. "Most of the social media profiles that they've created are nearly exactly the same as mine, minus say one letter or adding another number on."He said the hope was Eventbrite could identify the scammers through the bank accounts the money had been paid into.The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says ticketing companies need to have better protective measures in place.
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