Today I want to look back at a previous entry that I wrote about Ticket Scalping during the past Beijing Olympic Games. This was the entry where I questioned just how sophisticated the Chinese scalpers would be during the Summer Olympics. The answer:  some scalpers went to great lengths to attempt to make an illegal profit during this year’s games.

Earlier this week a Chinese man was found guilty for illegally scalping tickets to the games. At least 500 tickets were sold by the man at as much as 50 to 60 percent high than face value. The charge for the crime was 3+ years in prison and a $65,000 fine.

The man found guilty, used fake ID’s made from stolen identity information. The illegally obtained information was given to the man by a friend’s air conditioning company to purchase the tickets through China’s ticket outlets.