Ultimo concert: ‘clone’ website shut down for selling fake tickets

Counterfeit tickets for the biggest event of the Roman summer and of the whole of 2026: officers from the Rome Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza, working in coordination with the local Public Prosecutor’s Office, have ordered the takedown of a website registered with overseas providers that was offering tickets for sale for the record-breaking concert by the Roman singer-songwriter Ultimo, scheduled to take place on the Tor Vergata esplanade on Saturday 4 July, where 250,000 people (it is the live concert with the highest number of paying spectators in Italia, having surpassed the previous record set by Vasco at Modena Park in 2017 with 225,000 spectators).

The discovery is the result of ongoing monitoring and analysis of the internet carried out by officers from the Economic and Financial Police Unit in Rome, who identified a ‘decoy’ website used as a fake online shop for the resale of tickets that were no longer available: the 250,000 tickets were sold in just three hours, a year later. The aim was to deceive potential buyers and thereby ‘steal’ sensitive payment details associated with them. The findings of the investigation enabled the judicial authorities to be immediately informed; in order to halt the continuation of the unlawful conduct and protect the ‘customers’, ordered the ‘clone’ website to be taken down by notifying all Italian Internet Service Providers to block access to it.