Byeon Woo-seok's KRW 2.35 million and Lim Young-woong's KRW 800,000 ★ Woolin scalpers arrested in droves '100 million damage ↑'
Oct 01, 2024
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The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Crime Prevention and Order Division said on the 1st that it had arrested seven scalpers for violating the performance law. In addition to the performance law, the police are also considering applying charges of obstruction of business and violation of information and communication networks under the criminal law.
The suspects were identified as college students, job seekers, and soldiers in their 20s and 30s who are familiar with using computers. They are accused of making profits by using macro programs from 2021 to August this year to purchase famous singer concerts and musical tickets or reselling tickets to used markets to pay for living or pocket money.
The general public often book remaining seats after waiting hundreds of thousands of times, or fail to book, but they used the macro program to access the reservation link within a minute or two to secure a number of tickets.
Macros have the characteristic of automatically repeatedly inputting specific commands, which increases the probability of successful reservation compared to direct manipulation by humans.
So far, their profits are estimated to be about 130 million won.
The most expensive ticket was actor Byun Woo-seok's fan meeting held in July, with tickets priced at 77,000 won traded at a whopping 2.35 million won. It was confirmed that Lim Young-woong's concert was also traded at up to 800,000 won (187,000 won at regular price) per ticket, and Na Hoon-ah's concert was also traded at 500,000 won (143,000 won at regular price).
In some cases, 331 musical tickets were purchased and 100 million won was collected.
According to the police investigation, the profits of the crime are expected to increase further.
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