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Ticketing tracker: The inconvenient truth of 'black tickets' [Fact-tracking tonight]

2024.12.25 AM 12:01
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Crimes of scalping tickets are becoming more specialized and organized, but loopholes remain in related measures.

[Fact-tracking] As a result of the report, scalpers were selling scalpers on secondhand trading sites by dividing their roles into purchase books, sales books, and delivery books.

Beyond the level of secretly selling offline, such as around the concert hall, it has been detected that they are systematically moving and collecting criminal proceeds.

In particular, in the process, he used the automatic command repetition program, "Macro," to preempt tickets in large quantities, and then paid dozens of times more than the regular price.

Experts pointed out that reselling tickets purchased through macros is prohibited under the current law, but it is practically difficult to detect and punish them.

He also pointed out that the scope of the relevant law is limited to performances and sports games, and there is a limit to cracking down on ticket sales that are expanding their scope, such as restaurant reservation rights.

[Fact Tracking], which airs at 11:20 p.m. today (25th), examines the reality of the increasingly rampant ticket sales and seeks solutions such as supplementing the system.



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