Ticket Touts Rip-Off Fans

Tickets to the event were sold out long before kick-off. Early this year, the touts made another huge killing at the African Cup of Nations in Ghana. At such events, it is the innocent who suffer when the scalpers take charge.

In Vienna, Austria last week, the police seized 300 tickets from scalpers who made mark-ups of close to 200 percent. "I watched police arrest fans at a quarter final match between Spain and Italy at Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna.