'Influencer' vows to pay back cash to Picnic fans

Alleged scammer may have netted six-figure sum

- BY PAUL HEALY Crime Correspondent

A SOCIAL media "influencer" has vowed to give back thousands of euros she is alleged to have scammed people out of with fake Electric Picnic tickets.

Yesterday, this paper revealed the social media star, who is well known in the beauty pageant world, was under Garda investigation for allegedly scamming dozens of young people into purchasing tickets to the Stradbally festival that she did not have.

The woman was subsequently spoken to by the Garda fraud squad - and is said to be "fully cooperative" with the probe.