The University of Colorado police are asking football fans for help in solving a case of apparent credit card fraud.

CU's athletics department was notified last month by a credit card company that stolen credit card information had been used to purchase more than 110 tickets to the Sept. 6 game against Colorado State University, CU police Cmdr. Tim McGraw said. The tickets were then re-sold over the Internet.

Neither the suspects nor the victims of the credit card information theft are believed to be connected to the University of Colorado, McGraw said, but the people who bought the fraudulently obtained tickets could help law enforcement find the suspects.

In particular, police want to know how football fans paid for the tickets. Tracing the payments could lead authorities to the perpetrators, McGraw said.

“The Internet is a big place, and this could steer us on a much more narrow path,” he said.

Typically, fraudulent ticket sales involve making and selling multiple copies of the same tickets, McGraw said. In this case, each ticket was an original and valid version of an individual ticket.

The tickets were the “print-at-home” version and were sold over the Internet on Sept. 5 and Sept. 6. They were for sections 105, 106, 217 and 219. If you think you may have bought one of these fraudulently obtained tickets, call CU police Det. Brian Jordan at 303-492-8168.

McGraw stressed that the people who bought the tickets are being sought as witnesses.

“The people who bought these tickets and used them didn't do anything wrong,” McGraw said.