I have just booked my Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition ticket.

As well as the ticket pdf, three e-posts arrived within two minutes of each other, so in line on the index:

SEETickets booking confirmation,

TicketPlan cancellation insurance confirmation,

A request from OneLink, purporting to be the brand of The Way Ahead Group, based in Dublin, to verify my e-mail address. This was so close to the legitimate posts it looked as part of them.

I have NOT complied. Instead I found and rang both SEE and Ticket Plan. Neither had heard of OneLink, nor of The Way Ahead Group and agreed with my suspision of a phishing attempt riding on these bookings.

There was a genuine “The Way Ahead Group”, based in Nottingham, not Dublin; later owned by SEETickets. The original TWAG telephone number and a quoted e-post address for a man I take to have been its proprietor, are no longer valid. Attempts to contact TWAG go either nowhere or to SEE.

The whole things seems a complete tangle of agencies and middle-men complicating the simple and of course siphoning off fees that should be going to Meridienne!

I will forward the apparent TWAG message to both the gov.uk and BT’s own fraud-reporting services… as indeed the helpful lady at SEE agreed I should! I also said I will post this warning here. I think the scammers have discovered the extinct TWAG / SEE link.