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Three arrested in Disneyland tickets scam
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A local IT employee and two scalpers have been arrested for allegedly falsifying thousands of entrance tickets to Shanghai Disneyland and selling them on the Internet, the Pudong People’s Procuratorate said.
The employee, surnamed Bai who worked for an IT service supplier for the ticket system of Shanghai Disneyland, was allegedly stealing the QR codes of more than 2,600 tickets from June 27 to July 20, taking advantage of a loophole in the IT company’s procedures, the prosecutor said.
The employee, newly graduated from a local university, had changed the dates of the QR codes and sold them to more than 1,700 people with the help of the scalpers, surnamed Shen and Ding.
The gang gained total profits of more than 490,000 yuan (US$73,500), and caused Shanghai Disneyland to lose more than 870,000 yuan.
Bai was arrested in connection with the theft while the scalpers were accused of knowingly concealing, buying and helping to sell illegally acquired goods, the prosecutor said.
Many Disney visitors had complained that the tickets they had bought through official channels were found to have already been used.
In one reported case, a group of elementary school students and their parents were told at the theme park entrance on July 14 that 33 of the 55 tickets they had bought from the flagship Disney store on Alitrip.com were invalid because they had already been used several days before, Pudong police said.
The head of the school group, surnamed Fang, then had to pay more than 16,000 yuan for the students and parents to be allowed entry.
Alitrip and Disney later refunded Fang for the invalid tickets.
Shanghai Disney Resort later said in an official response that “this case involves a third-party vendor,” and called in the police.
Pudong police tracked down the IP address logged onto the ticket system and held Bai at his company office, police said, adding that the scalpers who had helped to sell the falsified tickets were caught later.
Bai sold the falsified tickets to Shen, Ding and other scalpers for 280 yuan each, compared with the official price of 499 yuan in June and July. The scalpers are then alleged to have sold on those tickets at a profit, claiming them to be “discounted tickets,” police said.
Buyers of the falsified tickets entered the Disneyland without any problems, but the true owners of the tickets could no longer enter the theme park as their tickets had already been used.
Bai said he had initially met Ding in June and he had given him an authentic Disney ticket and asked whether Bai could make a fake one. Bai then tried to find out the QR codes of the sold tickets through the system loophole and managed to change the dates.
Police said that they then began selling the tickets through websites and WeChat, and that Bai had changed the dates of the tickets according to the demands of buyers and sent the falsified QR codes via e-mail.
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