- Premier League -Football Clubs Cancel Hundreds of Thousands of False Accounts Aiming Tickets
- Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea all rise for banning and blocking resale groups and bots
- Overseas dealers use proxy services and bot software for flooding systems
The Premier League football clubs increase the action against ticket counting, cancels hundreds of thousands of fake accounts and prohibit fans who turned out to be involved in resale fraud.
The BBC Reports Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea have all conducted major studies to tackle the problem, which often depend on bots and proxy services.
Liverpool Football Club said it closed 145,000 fake ticket accounts in the last two years and handed out 1,114 lifetime ban last season alone.
Investigators said the increase in bans followed the manipulation of automated software and the discovery of mass use of burner phones used to hide identities.
Told Arsenal BBC Sport It had canceled nearly 74,000 accounts this season and banned more than 7,000 membership.
Chelsea said it was blocking over 350,000 attempts at purchases from bots. Recent research found that bots now account for more than half of all internet traffic.
The action of these three top flight clubs highlights the extent of the problem, where dealers use overseas platforms to take advantage of inflated prices.
The BBC Studies found touts running operations on an industrial scale with companies using membership, bot software and proxy servers to buy tickets across Premier League clubs.
These are then resold through sites based abroad, which leaves supporters at risk of paying well over the indicative value or buying tickets that do not work on the turn.
Liverpool said it had also closed 162 social media groups with over one million members involved in the resale of ticket.
On match days, the nearly 400 targeted checks performed to block suspicious accounts from entering.
Arsenal and Chelsea have adopted similar measures in which new technology including multifactor approval and encrypted barcodes were introduced in the league.
The Premier League has called on fans to exhibit extreme caution when buying from unauthorized third -party sites.
While resale of football tickets is illegal in England, the police do not do much about it. Only 12 arrests were made to exclude the entire top three levels of English football last season.
