The 2022 Club World Cup takes place Rabat and Tangier from February 1st to 11th, is already a commercial success. In addition to the income related to TV rights, part of which was recently acquired by the Canal+ group, The vast majority of tickets sold out in record time. But this commercial success has not only made people happy.
Online ticket sales were launched by FIFA on the evening of January 20th. The next morning, several disappointed netizens expressed their views their dissatisfaction on social networks after the unavailability Tickets for games Wydad of Casablanca and Real Madrid, as well as those of the big and small finals.
This Tuesday, January 24th, all tickets are unavailable except for the tickets for the opening match scheduled for Wednesday, February 1st at the Grand Stade de Tangier. between Auckland FC’s New Zealanders and Al Ahly’s Egyptians, as well as the meeting between the Seattle Sounders and the winner of that confrontation.
Before I even started the Club World Cup 2022 has thus disappointed many. A feeling reinforced by the outrage of some fans at the prices charged when reselling tickets that are no longer available on the FIFA platform.
Tickets sold ten times more expensive
Several websites offer tickets for all Mondialito games at different prices 800 and 1,200 DH. That is up to 10 times more expensive than the list price Set up by FIFA at the start of sales, which had many problems.
Start with an endless wait (see screenshot), then error when paying online. Two issues that could be related scalp Tickets. Cyber criminals can use this technique to earn huge sums of money ticket bots, small programs that behave like humans, but whose actions (clicks, keystrokes, etc.) are automated.
These bots exploit data in a quarter of a second, This gives them a significant edge over someone using a mouse and keyboard. 100 times faster than a human A bot can consult, analyze and interact with dozens of pages at the same time.
the Captcha is one of the solutions available to ticketing platforms to combat these bots. Concrete, this security measure of the type “question-response authentication”, makes it possible to automatically distinguish a human user from a computer.
However, the online sales platform is FIFA had none Captcha at the start of the ticket counter. Although each user could not buy more than four tickets, This error may have served the purposes of the bots Ticket buyers and cybercriminals, much to the chagrin of Moroccan fans.
