Fraud: Private individual, Switzerland 2024
A man bought tickets for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris for just under 2000 francs on an official-looking website.
- Incident · 06.2024 · Switzerland
- Evidence: confirmed by an authority
- Fraud
As of
What happened
The page appeared on Google as a sponsored result directly after the official website. The confirmation arrived, the tickets never did.
- Affected
- Private individual (anonymous)
- Industry
- Private individual
- Loss
- CHF 2'000
- Figure given by the source
- just under 2000 francs
- Business interruption
- unknown
- Ransom demanded / paid
- unknown / unknown
- Data affected
- unknown
- Bankruptcy
- no
- Entry point
- sponsored search result for a ticket website
What would cyber insurance have paid?
That depends on the terms. Whether those affected were insured: unknown.
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Paid, but nothing or the wrong thing delivered, fake shop
Mostly covered 24 of 29 private products cover it fully, as an add-on or with limits.
Overview based on public policy terms, as of 06.11.2026. Only your policy and its general terms and conditions (GTC) are binding. No confirmation of cover.
What we can learn
Buy tickets for major events only from the official point of sale, not via sponsored search results.
Sources
- Wochenrückblick Woche 25: Wie Betrüger Grossanlässe wie die Fussball-EM oder die Olympischen Spiele für ihre Zwecke missbrauchen (opens in a new window) Bundesamt für Cybersicherheit BACS (bis 2023: NCSC) · 25.06.2024
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