New York Comic Con Fans Latest Victims Of Scalpers: 4 Ways To Stop ‘Ticket Bots’

New York Comic Con fans became the latest victims of ticket scalpers Wednesday.

Thousands had preregistered with Comic Con’s fan verification program, designed to box scalpers out of the October event. But when noon struck, many cosplay fans found themselves waiting in the online queue for over an hour as resale tickets surfaced on StubHub for twice the face value.

Like a predictable comic book villain, “ticket bots,” animated software designed to jump to the front of online queues and buy hundreds of tickets, had struck again.