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Local police nab man making fake bus, train, plane tickets
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A man has been arrested for allegedly profiting over 100,000 yuan (US$14,550) from making and selling fake train, bus and plane tickets in the past five years, Shanghai railway police said on Saturday.
This is the largest case of its kind in the past three years that has been solved by Shanghai police.
The suspect, a Hunan native surnamed Wang who lives in Jiangyin City of Jiangsu Province, allegedly owned up that he purchased the paper for the tickets from Wuhan City of Hubei Province, produced the fake tickets with graphics software at home and sold them via taobao.com and baidu.com.
Wang said he stayed in touch with over 10,000 clients.
Lin Ronggui, spokesperson of Shanghai railway police, told Shanghai Daily that a large number of his clients sought the tickets as statements of expenses on business trips, while others take chances at using a free ride with the tickets whose QR codes were unreadable.
“Normally people using fake tickets are unable to get on the train, but there are manual gates where passengers can pass avoiding a machine scan of their tickets, and those gates could be opened when there are too many passengers,” Lin explained.
He added that along with the common blue-colored train tickets, the softer red-colored ones are still being sold, and those tickets don’t have QR codes.
In a raid at Wang’s home on Thursday, police discovered 9,102 done and half-done fake train tickets and 592 plane tickets as well as tools for producing the tickets and a clip railway staff use to mark a valid ticket.
As Wang used his wife’s identity and contact information to sell the tickets online, police said the woman, surnamed Su, is also under investigation.
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