Fact check: These FIFA World Cup ticket sites are fake
Key takeaways
- Desperate to get hold of tickets for the football World Cup, many fans face being scammed by sites set up to sell fake tickets.
- Many fraudsters are trying to scam football fans online.
- It also listed dozens of suspicious domains that had already been identified but said that "the public should be aware that new websites will continue to appear."
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
Desperate to get hold of tickets for the football World Cup, many fans face being scammed by sites set up to sell fake tickets. Here's how to make sure you don't fall into the trap.
https://p.dw.com/p/5FLMq Many online ticket sites purporting to be official are fake Advertisement Unbeatable football stars, historic goals and legendary goalkeepers: The FIFA World Cup has begun in the US, Mexico and Canada, but the frantic search for tickets remains. Many fraudsters are trying to scam football fans online.
In May, the US domestic intelligence service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned against scams and said it was issuing a public service announcement "to warn the public that cyber threat actors are conducting spoofing attacks against the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) website in advance of the 2026 FIFA World Cup."