Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While investigating the skyrocketing costs of concert tickets, Vice news talked to one of the most successful ticket scalpers in ...

From sold out to shut out, fans are finding it harder and harder to score seats to the big event without shelling out big bucks to a scalper. The culprit: ticket bots. Ticket bots are computer ...

U.S. lawmakers are giving fans a spark of hope they could buy event tickets at more affordable prices. Several senators told CBS News they would support federal legislation that limits the profit ...

Scalper bot software is able to perform multiple tasks, including creating multiple fake accounts for a targeted website, navigating captchas, purchasing tickets and more. Springsteen and Ticketmaster ...

Bills to outlaw the use of computer bots to buy event tickets passed in the Michigan House of Representatives Tuesday. Ticket bots gained extra attention a few years ago when scammers used them to buy ...

Sean Allen, a spokesman for the Palace Theatre, said third-party websites that masquerade as legitimate brokers often dupe customers to purchase tickets from them. That has contributed to customers ...

LANSING — Michigan is poised to become the next state to ban online ticket scalping bots after lawmakers Thursday approved a two–bill package now on its way to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk for likely ...