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 ...

Ash-har Quraishi is a consumer correspondent based in Chicago. He is an Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of local, national, international and investigative reporting experience.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article misspelled Rep. Analise Ortiz's first name. A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to make it easier for Arizonans to buy tickets to ...

Securing concert tickets has its challenges but Chappell Roan is ensuring her fans are not left behind because of resellers and bots. The pop star, who is currently touring across the U.S. and Europe, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — New bills have been introduced to combat the use of bots to buy tickets to shows or concerts in Michigan. Some call them “Taylor Swift bills,” a reference to the 2022 ...

As for how exactly team members identified bot involvement – which would, of course, have best been halted before checkout – the ticketing giant didn’t dive into particulars. “Expert Abuse and Fraud ...