Scammers have duped hundreds of people out of thousands of dollars each using bogus Olympic ticket-selling sites, reports said today. A security expert warned that more will follow.At least two Web sites — www.beijing-tickets2008.com and www.beijingticketing.com — have been shut down in recent weeks after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) filed restraining orders with U.S. federal courts, the Los Angeles Times, among other newspapers, said over the weekend. The Reuters news service followed with a story of its own today.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111539Beijing Games hit by Internet ticket scam
Sports fans around the world have been swindled by an international Internet scam which offered thousands of bogus tickets for the Beijing Games, Olympic officials said on Monday.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKPEK25562820080804No compensation for ticket victims
Beijing Olympic organisers have said they can do nothing to compensate people who bought tickets from websites that have turned out to be fakes. The Australian Olympic Committee also said it was powerless to provide replacement tickets.
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Olympic ticket scams just the start, says researcher
Scammers have duped hundreds of people out of thousands of dollars each using bogus Olympic ticket-selling sites, reports said today. A security expert warned that more will follow.