University of Colorado police want to talk to anyone who bought tickets for the CU-CSU game online through a third-party broker for sections 105, 106, 217 or 219 on Saturday, Sept. 5, or Sunday, Sept. 6. The fans are not suspected of any wrong-doing but might be able to help police catch the people who originally bought the tickets using stolen credit card information and then re-sold them.
If you think you might have bought suspicious tickets, call CU Police Detective Brian Jordan at 303-492-8168.
University of Colorado police are asking football fans for help in solving a case of apparent credit card fraud.
CU's athletic 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 CU, 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 the fraudulently obtained tickets, call CU Police Detective 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.
Contact Camera Staff Writer Erica Meltzer at 303-473-1355 or meltzere@dailycamera.com.



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