In recent months, these operators have had to refund around $400,000 to the legitimate owners of credit cards (Source: The Age, 6 April 2017 ). Stolen credit card details are then used to buy a real ticket, using the details of tourists who bought via WeChat. Under the scam, fake discounted tickets for attractions are sold through WeChat to tourists visiting Australia. This problem has recently come to light in Australia with nine leading tourism operators in Victoria being hit with fraudulent charges due to an ongoing scam on China’s popular social media site, WeChat. Even if you catch the ticketing fraud and can alert the authorities, it’s not the perpetrator attending your event - it’s someone who unknowingly bought the ticket from scammers engaged in ticketing fraud. Increasingly, tickets are being purchased online with stolen credit cards and then immediately resold to unsuspecting attendees. Every industry is susceptible to fraud, but unfortunately the ease in which credit cards are used online makes ticketing fraud a particularly vulnerable target, causing big (and potentially expensive!) headaches for event organisers.

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