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How an investigation of a ticket touting scam brought the perpetrators to justice
Posted 06 August 2024 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Analysis|Consumer Goods and Services|National
ANALYSIS: TQ Tickets was a family-run enterprise which bought concert tickets in bulk from primary sellers online and...
TQ Tickets was a family-run enterprise which bought concert tickets in bulk from primary sellers online and then, once events had sold out, sold them on to consumers at vastly inflated prices.
Led by the self-styled ‘Ticket Queen’ Maria Chenery-Woods, her husband Mark Woods, her sister Lynda Chenery and the latter’s former husband Paul Douglas — who dubbed himself ‘Ticket Boy’ — TQ Ticket...
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