Singer Raye has hit back at ticket touts who she says "overwhelmed" the sign-up process for an upcoming live show by using AI bots to create "hundreds of thousands of fake registrations".
The Where Is My Husband! singer revealed there were 1.8 million sign-ups for her one-off 5,000-seat performance at the Royal Albert Hall on 23 October.
To avoid a pre-sale which she felt scalpers could exploit, Raye said the sign-up list had been manually reviewed to identify a shortlist of people believed to be "real fans".
The award-winning artist said she had "never witnessed bots on this scale" and was changing the process as it is "so important" to her that fans can buy tickets at the face value price.
The fans who have been manually selected will receive a pre-sale link and code by email at 11:45 BST on Tuesday, with pre-sale opening shortly after.
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