People have been selling fake tickets to the Kaslo Jazz Etc. Summer Music Festival which takes place this long weekend.

Since the festival is sold out, this is leaving buyers short $120, and without a ticket. Children eight and under don't have to pay. People are taking those free tickets, photoshopping them and selling them as PDF tickets.

"It's the first year we've seen it at this level, for sure," says Paul Hindrichs, the executive and artistic director of the festival.

It looks like the fake ticket sales only started on Tuesday. Hindrichs thinks people have been sitting on their kids' tickets and waiting to the very last minute to take advantage of people.

All the tickets are electronic, and if you want to sell your ticket there is a secure way to do it on the Jazz Fest website. If anyone receives an email, paper or PDF ticket, it's fake.

They know of one person who sent fake tickets to at least seven people, Hindrichs said.

They were able to cancel all those orders and they're trying to let the people who bought them know they don't actually have a ticket. And they've been contacted by a few more people asking about their tickets, and it turns out their fraudulent too.

The festival is using Tickit, a company based in Courtenay, as their ticket selling platform. The people selling fake tickets are selling single days tickets, which go for $120.

Hindrichs said they're not busting the fraudsters.

"That's out of our hands," he said.

They don't know how the payments went through, all the festival organizers can do is contact people to let them know they don't have a ticket.

"If anyone wants to pursue it, they contact the police," Hindrichs said.

Click below to listen to the full interview with Paul Hindrichs, which will air on StokeFM on Friday, July 29: