Fraud Prevention Month

Avoid ticket scams

Country Norway
Authority/organisation The Consumer Ombudsman
Campaign theme Avoid ticket scams
Period 01.03.2011-31.03.2011

Description of campaign:

The Consumer Ombudsman launched an awareness campaign through press releases to warn people about ticket scams. The campaign was linked to the FIS Ski World Championships in Oslo in March 2011. In addition to warning consumers, the CO also made several enforcement efforts. One of the most efficient was to ask Google to remove ads for tickets that were in breach of national legislation.