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Tue, Dec 1st 2009 11:43 am EST
Officials from college football's Southeastern Conference (SEC) are on the look out for counterfeit tickets to Saturday's championship game between Florida and Alabama. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the SEC will set up a special window at the Georgia Dome, where the game will be played, where they will verify whether certain tickets are fakes. In recent years, scammers have been perfecting how to make counterfeit tickets and have reportedly even copied some of the holograms used for security purposes. The window will open at 10am, and kick off is at 4pm. Officials said people can go to the window with a reseller, verify the ticket's legitimacy and then walk back outside the no-scalping buffer zone of 2,700 feet around the stadium to complete the transaction.
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Comments represent the opinions of users and do not necessarily reflect the views of TicketNews.The SEC doesnt give a crap about fakes. At last years game, I went the that window that there was a stack of fakes 2 feet high before lunch. They were all for the same 3 sections, one in each price level on the 40-50 yardline. I was suppose to meet a guy from craigslist to purchase tickets in that same section and told the people in the booth I was about to meet one of the people selling them and asked if they were interested in a "sting" with local PD to catch them. They said no way, "we have no interest in taking any kind of action against anyone selling fake tickets". ATL is famous for fake tickets, they have counterfeits to every event at the GA Dome. Rumor is that even the primary ticket makers are somtimes involved (hence how they copied the hologram last year). I saw 5 different kinds of fakes last year and they were on every corner, within 10 yards of police selling them. No one cares, so they keep taking peoples money. If you wanted to take action, youd have undercover cops going around attempting to buy them with an RF scanner to verify they are valid or not and arresting those selling them. Its simple, you could have filled a bus full of guys last year, but no one cares, not the GA Dome, Not the SEC, not anyone.