- Premier League soccer clubs cancel hundreds of thousands of false accounts that go to tickets
- Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea increase prohibitions and block the resale groups and bots
- Restless people abroad are using proxy and botware services for flood systems
Premier League soccer clubs are intensifying the action of tickets, canceling hundreds of thousands of false accounts and fans of the prohibition that are involved in resale scams.
He BBC Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea reports have carried out large -scale research to address the problem, which often depend on bots and power services.
Liverpool Football Club said he closed 145,000 false ticket accounts in the last two years, and delivered 1,114 prohibitions for life last season alone.
The researchers said that the increase in prohibitions followed the manipulation of automated software and the discovery of the massive use of burners used to hide identities.
Arsenal told him BBC Sport He had canceled almost 74,000 accounts this season and prohibited more than 7,000 memberships.
Chelsea said he blocked more than 350,000 bot shopping attempts. Recent research found that bots now represent more than half of all Internet traffic.
The action of these three most important flight clubs highlights the scale of the problem, with resellers who use platforms abroad to benefit from inflated prices.
He BBC The investigation found promotions of operations on an industrial scale, with companies that use memberships, Botware Software and Proxy servers to buy tickets in the Premier League clubs.
Then they are shown through websites based abroad, leaving followers at risk of paying well over the nominal value or buying tickets that do not work in the tourniquetes.
Liverpool said he had also closed 162 social media groups with more than one million members who were involved in tickets.
In the conference, it carried out almost 400 checks directed to prevent suspicious accounts from entering.
Arsenal and Chelsea have adopted similar measures, with new technologies that include multifactor authentication and encrypted bar codes that are introduced throughout the league.
The Premier League has urged fans to exercise extreme caution when buying in unauthorized third parties.
While the resale of football tickets is illegal in the United Kingdom, the police are not doing much about it. Only 12 arrests were made to promote all the six main levels of English football last season.
