Seven accused of mass ticket scalping scheme arrested

Those suspects allegedly booked the tickets by auto-dialing the TRA’s phone line immediately after the system opened for daily sales at 6 a.m., and may have resulted in profits over NT$10 million — from nearly 80,000 tickets in total — CIB officials said.

After hoarding tickets, they then sold them to well-known travel agencies, including South-East Travel Service and ezTravel, who went on to raise prices further prior to peak travel periods during the holidays.

The CIB indicated that there were at least 3 suspected rings involved in this incident; one of them set over 100 phone lines in Taipei, Hualian, Nantou respectively. They allegedly stole other’s ID numbers to reserve tickets, which allowed them to use computers to mass auto-dial the system.

The vice president of the TRA, Chiang Yin-hei, said that the company will soon increase anti-fraud security measures of its systems to ensure the protection of the public.

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