All posts belonging to the Fraud tag can be found in the list below.
Blockchain-based ticketing firm Aventus has unveiled the first version of its Aventus Protocol source-code. Aventus Protocol is an open-source blockchain ticketing platform that will allow anyone t...
Tags: Aventus, Aventus Protocol, Blockchain, Fraud, Source-Code, ToutsThe US Attorney’s Office is arguing that Joseph Meli, who was accused of defrauding 130 investors out of $95m (€82m) in a Ponzi scheme around the resale of tickets to Broadway show ‘Hamilton’ ...
Tags: Fraud, Hamilton, Joseph Meli, Ponzi Scheme, prison, US AttorneyToronto’s Maple Leafs and Raptors have committed to a paperless ticketing system after announcing plans to eliminate print-at-home options. Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, which owns the N...
Tags: basketball, Fraud, Ice Hockey, Leafs, Mobile Only, NBA, NHL, Paperless, Print At Home, RaptorsEvopass, a ticketing software startup, has launched its exchange platform that it claims “will finally put a stop to ticket touting and ticket fraud.” The Dublin-based firm will focus on indepe...
Tags: Evopass, Fraud, MccGwire, QR Code, Resale, Secondary Market, Self-Ticketing Venue, ToutsThe Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers (STAR) has been hailed for its help in tackling ticket fraud as the organisation celebrates its 20th anniversary. Figures released by STAR and cybercrime ...
Tags: Data, Fraud, Police, STARTickets for German quartet KRAFTWERK’s February show in Moscow are being sold on a blockchain platform. Tickets Cloud, which has developed the crypto-tickets blockchain platform, has reached an ...
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptoticket, Etherum, Fraud, Kraftwerk, Russia, TCI, Tickets Cloud, ToutsThe Irish Government will not initiate a new inquiry into the deal between the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) and British ticketing firm THG as it hopes not to delay its severing. Then OCI presid...
Tags: Crime, Fraud, Inquiry, Ireland, Olympics, THGUS radio star Craig Carton has been arrested over his part in a fake discount ticket business that has been likened to a Ponzi scheme. Carton, a presenter for New York City-based sports network WFA...
Tags: Craig Carton, Crime, Fraud, New York, PonziThe Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) wants to take ticket services in-house for next year’s winter Olympic Games, after it was dragged into a touting investigation at Rio 2016. The National Olymp...
Tags: ATR, Fraud, In-House, Ireland, Olympics, Pyeongchang, ToutingMusic festival tickets are four times more likely to be targeted by fraudsters than passes for sports. A new report issued by Riskified, the eCommerce fraud prevention company, found that the growt...
Tags: Festival, Fraud, Payments, Sport, Transaction
