London Metropolitan Police takes action against the 2012 London Olympics ticket scam- Swimming News
London Metropolitan Police has taken action against the 2012 London Olympics ticket scam and arrested over 35 individuals involved in fraudulent sold of tickets for the upcoming Olympic Games.
The police unit arrested 37 people for selling fraudulent tickets of the 2012 London Olympics, who will bear jail terms, if found guilty of the charges brought against them.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games, parents of Great Britain’s Rebecca Adlington, who won two gold medals at these Olympics, became the victims of a ticket scam. Adlington’s parents tried to watch her daughter winning the gold medals at the Beijing Olympics,
but in their desperate need of tickets, they were scammed by a fake ticket selling website.
They bought tickets worth £1,100 from an online ticket selling website, which never delivered them the vouchers and thus they failed to watch their daughter dominating the freestyle events.
Adlington won the gold medals in the events of Women’s 400m freestyle and the 800m freestyle at the Beijing Olympics.
Chairman of the London 2012 organising committee, former Olympic champion, Lord Coe said, “The Olympic Games are about people knowing that what they are watching in the arena is legitimate and also about making sure that the people sitting in the seats are
those who bought tickets to the biggest show on Earth. We do not want this to be the biggest scam on Earth.”
The London Operation Unit is handling 16 operations to fight against deception and prearranged crime surrounding Olympic Games. The unit is assigned with jamming the way of ticket advertising and those deceiving the public by selling fake tickets.
A spokesman of the unit gave a warning to those who are running websites, inviting people to buy fake tickets of the Games. He said that their unit has a lead on who they culprits are. He mentioned that the operation unit is supported by London Metropolitan
Police and several other law enforcement agencies around UK.
He also added that one website has changed their status of selling tickets to under construction, after it was contacted by a BBC reporter. The operation unit is also working against the scams involving unreal hotel rooms booking, as people are being fooled
to buy commercial packages and executive goods which will never appear.
Nick Downing, Chief Inspector, expressed that he does not want London to be associated with a nightmare. He also said that around 80 individuals were arrested, who were involved in buying tickets from stolen credit cards.
London police claims to be vigilant in their act of stopping sale of fake tickets. It is of immense importance that the incidence like what happened with Adlington’s parents should not happen again. They stressed that those who wish to buy tickets for London
events, should visit London 2012 website to purchase seats for the Games, to avoid becoming a victim.
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