Online ticket scams are shut down

UK police in conjunction with the ICANN close scam sites

[Leosghost]

The UK police have persuaded ICANN to aid them in closing over 100 scam ticket sites ..many outside of the UK ..the sites have been offering non existant tickets for sale for premiership UK soccer matches , rock concerts etc ..even for the 2012 olympics ( and as yet no tickets have been issued for the event )..

story [news.bbc.co.uk]

Interesting that the ICANN moved on this

[kaled]

It should be the responsibility of credit card companies to deal with this. If they carried out proper checks such frauds would vanish. And if credit card companies were made universally liable for all instances of non-delivery of goods and services (due to bankruptcy, fraud or simple mismanagement) they'd get their act together pretty quickly.

In the UK, for items costing more than £100, credit-card companies are already held jointly liable in law but there is a grey area for items purchased abroad. I would eliminate the grey area and require the same rule to apply to all purchases, irrespective of value.

Kaled.

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From that story...

Getting the sites shut down is a complex business. Most are based abroad, and the only leverage the police can get is by approaching Icann (Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers), the organisation that registers all website addresses and owners.

The police use legislation originally introduced in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, in which 96 football fans lost their lives in a crush at one end of the ground.

The rules were originally aimed at touts selling unlawful tickets outside football grounds, but they are now being used to stop such sales over the internet.