Fraud: Private individual, Switzerland 2025
For sold-out open-air festivals and the Eurovision Song Contest, new or fake profiles on Facebook and other networks offered tickets.
- Incident · 03.2025 · Switzerland
- Evidence: confirmed by an authority
- Fraud
As of
What happened
As proof, they sent a screenshot, and the buyers paid under time pressure via a mobile payment service. It then turned out that the ticket did not exist.
- Affected
- Private individual (anonymous)
- Industry
- Private individual
- Loss
- no reliable figure
- Business interruption
- unknown
- Ransom demanded / paid
- unknown / unknown
- Data affected
- unknown
- Bankruptcy
- no
- Entry point
- Ticket offer on Facebook or other social networks
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 sold-out tickets only via the organiser’s official resale platform.
Sources
- Wochenrückblick Woche 12: Käufer und Verkäufer im Visier der Ticketbetrüger (opens in a new window) Bundesamt für Cybersicherheit BACS (bis 2023: NCSC) · 25.03.2025
«Leider stellt sich in einem solchen Betrugsfall im Nachhinein heraus, dass das Ticket nicht existiert und der Screenshot eine gezielte Fälschung war.»