New Zealand rugby fans come to aid of Lions fan who fell for ticket scam

By Tayla Mitchell

New Zealand rugby fans have offered to come to the aid of a British and Irish Lions fan who travelled to New Zealand only to find he'd fallen for a ticket scam.

Irishman Paul Mullins told Radio Sport's Martin Devlin on the Devlin Radio Show that he purchased a ticket for the second test from a website called tickets.co.nz - however the website no longer exists and the seller couldn't be contacted ahead of tomorrow's game in Wellington.

"I bought them off a website and when I got to New Zealand I tried to contact the guy who sold them to me and the number I had didn't exist, so I couldn't get through to it.

"And I went to go back to the website again and the website now has vanished."

Mullins said he arrived in New Zealand before the first test and realised there was an issue with his tickets for the Wellington test. He decided to travel to the capital anyway.

Lions fan Paul Mullins.

After appearing on Radio Sport, the radio station was inundated with free tickets and tickets to buy from New Zealand fans for Mullins and his friend.

All Blacks' sponsor Adidas New Zealand have since come to the party offering tickets.

"I just got off the phone with Adidas New Zealand and they're sending two tickets over," Mullins told the Herald.