Recently, offline concerts have begun to return, many star artists have officially announced concert itineraries, and many fans have also begun to grab tickets on major ticketing platforms. However, this also gives fraudsters an opportunity.
According to reports, recently, tickets for Huachenyu's 2023 10th anniversary tour went on sale, and they were sold out in just a few seconds. In this regard, some fans of the Chengdu station said that they entered the queue page in advance before the sale started, and the ranking was also very high, but they were squeezed to the back after the sale.
On March 19, the concert ticketing general agent Damai Network issued an apology statement.
The statement said that during the pre-sale period of "2023 Brilliance Mars Concert - May 1 Venue of Chengdu Station", users continued to increase, traffic doubled, and at the same time it was found that a large number of scalpers tried to swipe tickets through illegal means, and the system automatically increased the security level of anti-swiping tickets, resulting in some users being unable to pay orders normally. After discovering the problem, the platform has done emergency treatment as soon as possible, and restored the system to normal at the first time. For the problems that occurred during the cooperation of this concert, Damai.com "apologizes".
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It is worth noting that due to the difficulty of finding concert tickets, many netizens accidentally fell for scammers.
Recently, a girl in Haining, Zhejiang Province, posted her experience of being deceived on the Internet. According to her, she saw someone selling tickets for Hua Chenyu's concert on the Internet, and after communication, she transferred 379.2 yuan to the other party. Unexpectedly, the other party asked for a new payment on the grounds that the payment was not remarked, and said that the first payment would be automatically refunded. After the girl paid 3 times in a row, the other party still asked her to continue the transfer, and she realized that she was deceived.
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The Research Institute of the Rule of Law Network noticed that although official fans will remind them many times that there are various anti-fraud posts on Weibo, many people still fall into similar "traps".
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In this regard, Yang Baoquan, an expert in the Law Daily Lawyer Database and a senior partner of ZhongYin Law Firm, introduced that Article 266 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that if the amount of public or private property is relatively large, the person shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or surveillance, and shall be fined concurrently or alone; where the amount is very large or there are other serious circumstances, a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years shall be imposed, and a fine shall be imposed; Where the amount is particularly large or there are other particularly serious circumstances, a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment shall be imposed, and a fine or confiscation of property shall be imposed.
Lawyer Yang said that among the above-mentioned fraudulent acts, the perpetrator's behavior has been suspected of constituting the crime of fraud, and once verified, different degrees of criminal punishment will be imposed depending on the amount of fraud.
It should be pointed out that even if a real scalper has not committed fraud, according to Article 52 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Punishments for Public Security, anyone who commits any of the following acts will be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days, and may also be fined up to 1,000 yuan; where the circumstances are less serious, they shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan: forging, altering, or reselling train tickets, ferry tickets, airline tickets, theatrical performance tickets, sports competition tickets, or other valuable tickets or vouchers.
So, for such ticket scalping chaos, does the ticketing platform need to be liable?
Lawyer Yang believes that ticketing platforms should bear some responsibility for transactions on their websites. If the ticketing platform does not take appropriate security measures to prevent fraud and other illegal activities, or fails to provide transparent information and customer support, resulting in harm to customers, then the ticketing platform shall be responsible for this. For example, if the ticketing platform fails to publicly prompt on the website, or fails to provide detection or prevention of fraudulent activities, or fails to provide transparent fare information, resulting in customers being defrauded or charging unreasonable fees, the ticketing platform shall bear certain responsibilities.
However, if the platform has fulfilled the above obligations, and the fan purchase of tickets is not through the platform, but is traded privately, the platform is not liable.
"Consumers' performance tickets should be purchased through regular ticketing websites or mobile apps, and should not trust private ticketing channels such as 'internal employees' and 'scalpers' to avoid being deceived." If you really need to buy second-hand tickets, it is recommended to choose a transaction website that requires real-name authentication and relies on a third-party payment platform, and do not trade with strangers on social platforms such as WeChat and Weibo. If you have any questions about the booking information, you should contact the regular ticketing company in time, and once you find that you have been deceived, you should report to the police in time, and keep WeChat communication, payment transfer records, audio recordings and other evidence. Lawyer Yang said.
Source: Rule of Law Network