Sunday, June 26, 2011

Fears Over Counterfeit Olympics Websites

Sports fans are being urged to be wakeful of the danger of scams that could take value of people's dissatisfaction at omitted out on Olympics tickets.

Some will be not able to to secure tickets, even subsequent to the second call of sales.

Trading standards officers apprehension that a few counterfeit websites will be set up earnest to supply tickets.

Websites that take people's allowance and vanish have been set up previous to other leading events and festivals.

About 1.8 million people practical for 20 million tickets, but usually 6.6 million tickets were existing is to London 2012 Games.

Only granted resellers are authorised to sell the tickets, all of that are listed on the authorized London 2012 website.

A website checker is moreover in place to help people cross-reference either the website is legitimate.

Other tips for leading sporting events in broad add checking meeting sum and conditions and conditions before submitting an application tickets online and being questionable of tickets sole in bulk and proxy websites.

Nicola Schofield, group executive at Nottinghamshire Trading Standards, mentioned they were awaiting a few problems in the run-up to the Games.

"People should keep to real sources of tickets, instead tickets might flop to spin up or people might be denied entry," she said.

Ahead of the final Olympics in Beijing, the parents of bullion medallist swimmer Rebecca Adlington, who is from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, outlayed scarcely 1,100 on tickets they systematic from a website, that incited out to be a scam.

Any tickets unsold by organisers is to 2012 Olympics will be done existing in serve ballots, along with the probability of extra tickets for higher-profile events being expelled as venues are tested and capacities finalised.

Ebay, the internet auction site, has mentioned it will not enable the resale of Olympic tickets.

Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police's Operation Podium, that deals with Olympics-related fraud, says it is stability to guard the internet for sheet touts.

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