As ticket sales pick up ahead of the upcoming May Day holiday, China's official rail ticketing platform 12306 has stepped up measures to curb automated scalping and ensure fair access for travelers.
Using big data analytics and risk-control systems, the platform identifies suspicious activity, including accounts that frequently purchase tickets for unrelated individuals and payment accounts used repeatedly for other people's bookings. Flagged transactions are either placed in a slower processing queue or blocked outright.
From 12:00 am on Thursday to 11:59 pm on Saturday, the platform redirected 5.64 million ticket purchase requests to the slower queue and rejected 704,000 transactions. In total, the actions involved more than 1.05 million tickets, significantly disrupting scalpers' operations.
Authorities have urged passengers to book tickets only through the official 12306 platform to avoid potential risks.
(Source: China Daily)
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