Beijing Olympic scam website defrauds thousands

Beijing Olympic scam website

A fake Olympic ticket website has defrauded Australian, US and European sports fans out of tens of thousands of dollars.

The website: www.beijingticketing.com claims to have offices in Sydney, London and New York.

“Some customers handed over more than $US57,000 ($A60,600) each for tickets, but received nothing back.”

“I’ve been in business for 18 years, I’m aware that there’s fraud out there,” Texas-based travel agent, Jolanta Sochacka told the LA Times who is said to be one of the biggest victims of the scam.

“But they looked so legitimate, their website was so elaborate.”

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Posted by Mike 10 years ago

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rauterkus - August 4, 2008 @ 11:51 am

Listen to the reaction on the opening night of the games as the nations parade and then comes…. Nigeria. Every week we get email notices of bogus offers from Nigeria.

What country / group / individuals were doing this BJ-tix fraud? If that much money was obtained, some bankers somewhere know something.

I do not expect that all of that money was moved through PayPal.

Mike - August 4, 2008 @ 11:55 am

According to the article I linked to they were using a merchant account and the bank that provided the account might be liable for money lost.

The FBI are investigating so I think there is some chance the criminals will be caught.

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