Greedy ticket touts are ramping up prices on nine out of 10 tickets for Scottish gigs on a popular resale site, a probe has found.

A snapshot of traffic on resale ticket site Viagogo shows that over 95 per cent of briefs on sale are from touts, all listing for above face value.

Some 80 per cent of the tickets at inflated prices are from ­overseas sellers, reports The Daily Record.

The tours of artists including West Lothian's Lewis Capald i, Oasis and others have been plagued by touts, with many harvesting tickets using computer programmes. Campaigners are now calling on the UK Government to crack down on touts with a cap on profits on ticket resales.

FanFair Alliance, which fights for fairness in ticketing, has looked at Viagogo listings in Scotland, breaking down data in Edinbur

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