Training

Online ticket fraud

by Mark Rowe

The UK saw a 55 per cent rise in ticket fraud in 2015, losing £5.2 million to online ticket fraudsters in 2015, compared to £3.35 million in 2014. According to the UK’s Local Government Association (LGA), over a quarter of fake tickets sold online in 2015 were for big sporting events, including England’s Rugby World Cup tournament and the English Premier League. 20-29 year olds made up over a quarter of victims in 2015.

By the end of the decade, it’s expected that around £2.70 in every £690 of online payments will be fraudulent. Airline ticketing is expected to contribute up to 6% of this figure in 2020, at $1.5 billion or £1 billion.

Monica Eaton-Cardone, Co-Founder, Chargebacks911 and Global Risk Technologies, said: “Venue operators and ticketing companies are unfortunately no less prone to the problem of chargebacks than retailers from any other sector. The problem today is that the chargeback process is heavily weighted in favour of the cardholder, to the extent at which it is being abused.”

Global Risk Technologies is a chargeback remediation company and owner of Chargebacks911. It’s released a new ticketing fraud white paper addressing what it describes as the rising trend of ticket-related fraud and chargebacks. Working with an online ticketing company, Chargebacks911 secured a 14 per cent reduction in chargeback origination, increased the ‘win rate’ from 15.8pc to 58pc, and helped bring about halving in chargebacks from the same cardholder.

Tony Craddock, Director General of the Emerging Payments Association highlights that, “half-empty venues and an alleged illegal ticketing probe at in Rio are timely reminders that ticketing fraud is current and big business. A failure to square up to it damages the reputation of online payments with consumers and hits businesses with compensation costs. As ticketing fraud grows, it becomes increasingly important not to treat it as collateral damage within business as usual.

Although ID fraud gets more media attention, 70pc of chargeback volumes are actually attributable to friendly fraud, 20pc to merchant error and 10pc to criminal fraud, the firm says.

The Global Risk Technologies / Chargebacks911 white paper aims to help educate ticket vendors to the very real threats to their bottom line and encourage them to proactively combat fraud of all types if they want to prevent losses. To find out more about managing the chargeback risk in ticket sales, download the free ticketing fraud focus paper.

Visit www.globalrisktechnologies.com.

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