Beijing ticket conmen ready to run same scam in London
Posted in: Legal, Privacy & Security at 04/09/2008 01:36
Fraudsters are planning to exploit the public's newfound enthusiasm for the Olympic Games in London three years before tickets go on sale.
An American lawyer representing 144 victims of a fake ticketing scam during the Beijing Games -- the victims of which included the parents of the double Olympic swimming champion Rebecca Adlington, who paid £1,100 for tickets that never arrived -- gave warning that the syndicate behind the crime would repeat its multimillion-pound swindle in 2012.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/london_2012/article4664231.ece
