If that's the case, why are they using cutouts for it? I'd think that if their purpose was legitimate, they wouldn't feel the need to disguise their identity.
If that's the case, why are they using cutouts for it? I'd think that if their purpose was legitimate, they wouldn't feel the need to disguise their identity.
A similar thing happened when Uber started in New York City. You needed a livery license to drive there, so they created dozens of livery companies (all with German names) that they registered the drivers to, as a way I think, to make it harder for the city to try to shut them down (the city didn't shut them down but I think that was part of their risk calculus). Lyft originally didn't register liveries for its drivers and was banned from New York until it spun that up and it delayed their entry into the market by a few weeks.
That said, shifting blame for high prices isn't a new problem, so it's surprising the domains were all registered in the last 6 months.
Maybe it's a bigger project around market making and price optimization. I priced mine around 70% of the price of similar available tickets (since mine hadn't sold in the 3 weeks I had them listed) and they sold later that day.
Wouldn't that tip off the fake seller if they saw the email?
Such things are such a game of whack a mole that I would approach it as invisibly as possible if I were trying to sniff out fake sellers on my site. Even if just to hope to keep them unaware.