A Liverpool FC fan and his friends were conned out of £19,000 by scammers selling fake Champions League final tickets online.

Ray Mcdonald, from Pensby, Wirral, and his friends received their tickets on Tuesday night ahead of the final in Paris this Saturday, May 28, and initially thought they were genuine. However, upon further examination of the tickets, which cost £1,000 each, the group realised the PDFs were in fact fake.

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After trying to contact the ticket tout, who Ray said he has bought tickets from six times this season, he realised their Twitter account had been deleted and their number was no longer in service. The 33-year-old said he has been added to a WhatsApp group with 50 fans who have been scammed out of a total of 125-150 tickets.

He has come forward to warn other fans about the scam and help to stop the same thing from happening to anyone else.

“We bought 19 tickets at a grand each so we’ve spent £19,000 between us. It looked legit at first, I didn’t think anything of it. About 11pm last night I was about to go to sleep and my phone was going mad.

“I tried to phone [the ticket tout] and it said the number was not in service anymore and at that point I was like ‘I’ve been done here. Ray said.

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your mumu don do...next time ONLY BUY FROM GENUINE WEBSITE/SELLERS!!!

this type of yeye scams always happen during big matches and Euro/world cup, so this end of year in Qatar WC, all you mumus better watch out!

Too bad it happened to our comrade.#YNWA

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