Music Festivals That End Up Being Scams | loudwire

It seems like more and more music festivals end up being total scams. Plenty are poorly organized or don’t fully deliver on their promises, but these festivals organizers ended up being full-blown scammers who had past fraud charges or would receive fraud charges for their festivals.


Of course, Billy McFarland is the poster child for music festival scams. Fyre Festival turned into one of the most infamous stories of 2017, with both Netflix and Hulu making documentaries about the failed festival turned fraud. After forcing attendees to camp out in FEMA tents and feeding them cheese sandwiches, McFarland pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and ultimately served four years in prison.

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