Ed Sheeran Fake Manager Scammed $50,000 Super Bowl Tickets

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Super Bowl tickets were successfully scammed by a man through impersonating Ed Sheeran’s manager. But that’s not all since another Ed Sheeran fan was scammed through online in buying tour tickets as well.

According to Daily Mail, the victim of the fake Ed Sheeran manager ticketing scam was children’s charity, The Giving Back Fund. It was mentioned by the CEO of the nonprofit charity, The Giving Back Fund, Marc Pollick that the conman showed him a contract that has a forged signature of the “Shape of You” artist.

Furthermore, the contract’s term was said to promise the charity that Ed Sheeran would perform two songs for the charity’s event before the Super Bowl. Yet, the catch is that The Giving Back Fund should give the impersonator four Super Bowl luxury box tickets which total to $50,000.

With that said, The Giving Back Fund representatives were reported to meet with the swindler and gave him the Super Bowl tickets. After that event, the fake manager was never to be seen by the charity on the agreed concert of Sheeran for the charity.

Hence, they had called the police after suspecting and knowing that the “Thinking out Loud” singer is in Australia, touring for a benefit concert. The Super Bowl tickets were then reported to be sold already. But despite that, the police are still known to scour the con artist. The impersonator if then apprehended would face felony charges.

Metro also reported that it wasn’t just the scam that Ed Sheeran was involved. It was also mentioned that a mother’s savings for her wedding was scammed online for buying cheaper Ed Sheeran concert tickets.

Arlene McCann, the victim told that ‘Four tickets were priced at £375, but when I entered my details and received an order confirmation, the total cost was £2,191.62. It was a real shock.” The mother then stated that she was about to buy the tickets at the Viagogo website which didn’t show her the amount she was about to pay, just the huge amount was seen by McCann. No further response from the website had been received as of now.