- Premier League football clubs cancel hundreds of thousands of false accounts targeting tickets
- Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea have all intensified prohibitions and block resale groups and robots
- Resellers abroad use proxy services and bot software to flood systems
The Premier League football clubs intensify measures against ticket tickets, canceling hundreds of thousands of false accounts and banning fans that were involved in resale scams.
THE Bbc Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea reports have all conducted large -scale surveys to tackle the problem, which often rest on robots and proxy services.
The Liverpool Football Club said that it had closed 145,000 fake tickets in the past two years and had distributed 1,114 life for life last season.
Investigators said the increase in prohibitions followed the handling of automated software and the discovery of mass use of burner phones used to hide identities.
Arsenal said BBC Sport He had canceled nearly 74,000 accounts this season and prohibits more than 7,000 subscriptions.
Chelsea said he had blocked more than 350,000 attempts to purchase BOTS. Recent research has revealed that robots now represent more than half of all Internet traffic.
The action of these three high-level flight clubs highlights the extent of the problem, resellers using platforms abroad to take advantage of inflated prices.
THE Bbc The survey revealed that the touts operated on an industrial scale, companies using subscriptions, bot software and proxy servers to buy tickets in Premier League clubs.
These are then sold via websites based abroad, leaving risky supporters to pay a nominal value or purchase of tickets that do not work in turnstiles.
Liverpool said that he had also closed 162 social media groups with more than a million members involved in ticket networks.
On match days, he made nearly 400 targeted checks to prevent suspicious accounts from the entrance.
Arsenal and Chelsea have adopted similar measures, with new technologies including multi-factor authentication and encrypted bar codes introduced through the league.
The Premier League urged fans to show extreme caution when buying unauthorized third -party sites.
Although the resale of football tickets is illegal in the United Kingdom, the police do not do much. Only 12 arrests were made to boast the six best levels of English football last season.
