EASY money, what can I, say??? How easily, they all, fall to, the temptations of, committing a crime, these younger generations of "kids" are…off of the Newspapers, translated…
Trying to Ride the Coldplay Waves, Jacked Up the Prices of Hotel Fees, the Kaohsiung City Government Fined Eight Agencies
The rock band from Great Britain, Coldplay is performing at the Kaohsiung World Sports Arena for two days, and it'd attracted over ten thousand fans there, and there were the matters of selling of fake tickets, jacking up the costs of hotel stays. The scam rings used the rough fake tickets to sell them off online, the police already caught a male college student, Wei, confiscated three sold fake tickets, along with over $20,000N.T. in scammed amount, and the police isn't ruling out that there's a ticket-sales organized crime group behind this, the police will chase deeper into the leads; the city of Kaohsiung also found that there were eight of the hotel operators that had, sold the stays using the concert to get the costs of the rooms higher than regularly, and the highest fines given was $50,000N.T. for the hotel owners.
Chris Martin of ColdPlay at the concerts, apologized, "I'm sorry, some of the hotels charged, too high an amount", pointed out how the hotels had, raised the charges, to make more money. The Tourism Department of Kaohsiung stated, that the listed prices of the hotels, is higher than the amount that's reported as norm, the hotels can get fined anywhere from $10,000N.T.s to $50,000N.T.s, and the hotels caught will get publicized, and the amount fined listed too, as for the public's believing that the fine is not high enough, the Tourism Department already suggested to the Central Government to raise up the fines.
like this...photo from online
"pick your seats..."
The Department of Culture in Kaohsiung stated, that when there's the ticket scouts, the fines can be anywhere from ten to twenty times of the tickets' face values, and for every ticket that's available for purchasing, the police will actively scan the malwares online that are buying up massive numbers of tickets, to cut off the vendors, to stop the ticket scouts for once and for all.
Toward the hotels' raising up the prices of stay, the dean of the Yishou Restaurant Management major, Liu stated, that he'd believed the means of "publicizing the fined hotels", that it should be like publicizing the drunk drivers' identities too, that way, the hotels will take heed; currently, the fines are at anywhere from $10,000N.T. to $50,000N.T., and there's still room for the fines to get higher to have an effect.
Coldplay performed in Taiwan, the man in his twenties, Hsu got a ticket for $4,000N.T.s, and his female friend couldn't get a ticket, Hsu saw online that there was a seller who was willing to give up his ticket, at the same price that he'd bought his ticket at, they'd met at the high-speed rail stations for the exchange. As Hsu got the ticket, he'd picked it up at the night market pickup location, scanned the QR code, no response, that was when he'd realized, he'd, purchased a fake ticket.
Hsu reported this to the police, and had set up a scheme to catch the vendor, to meet up at Zuoying Station of the High Speed Rail, where the police caught the twenty-one-year-old male college student who is studying at an unnamed university up north.
That's still, how these, scammers work on the victims' wanting to get the cheaper cost tickets, and there's still, NO victims in this, only abusers and enablers, and yeah, you got scammed, sure, but because you wanted the tickets to the concert, that's why you'd, fallen for the schemes, and it's, still, partially your fault, and this is still a supply and demand problem, had there been no demands of these tickets to this, already, sold-out concert, then, these scammers wouldn't have a, market, would they? Exactly, but we all wanted to be a part of something big, that's why, anyone is, easy, target!
