Real or a scam? Social media flooded with thousands flogging Electric Picnic tickets
Electric Picnic hashtags full of accounts offering last minute tickets
Up to 75,000 people are making their way to Stradbally in county Laois for Electric Picnic this Friday morning, August 16.
Obviously not everyone who wants to go every year will get a ticket, and many across Ireland will be watching social media feeling like they've missed out on the party of the summer.
The Electric Picnic hashtags on X(formerly Twitter) is full of accounts offering tickets for sale, with the sheer volume of posts suggesting this could be a scam.
Electric Picnic organisers Festival Republic advises festival-going hopefuls that "if you see tickets for Electric Picnic advertised anywhere other than on Ticketmaster you stand a good chance of getting ripped off and possibly being refused entry", on the festival's website.
"Festival Republic will be unable to assist you if you have bought from an unauthorised source, as we will have no purchase history available for the ticket."
"All event tickets are checked by our staff at entry to the event and again at the wristband exchange for camping shows – any forged tickets will be confiscated from you, you will not be permitted to the event and you may face questioning from the police."