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A single bot can buy a thousand or more tickets in less than 60 seconds .

Bots can scoop up “limit four tickets per person” in less time than it takes you to enter your credit card information.

Bots are run by ticket resellers, hospitality companies and large corporations looking to secure seats for clients.

A former insurance salesman from Arizona named Ken Lowson developed an automated concert ticket-buying program.

Many operators have moved to territories beyond the reach of governments in Canada , U.S. , the U.K. and Australia .

Identities are masked with proxy IP addresses and VPNs.

Meanwhile, there are tech sweatshops in India where dozens of people are typing characters into CAPTCHA boxes to break the code for bots.

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