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Nov 19, 2009 8:32 pm US/Mountain

Credit Card Thief Scores With CU Football Tickets

BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) ― More than 100 tickets to the Rocky Mountain Showdown in September were stolen, then sold to unsuspecting football fans of CU or CSU. The theft bilked the university out of thousands of dollars.

Police at the University of Colorado in Boulder are asking football fans to help solve the theft case. 112 tickets to the big CU-CSU game were originally sold to someone who used stolen credit cards, who then resold them to fans.

"Once the tickets are distributed, they are distributed as an E-mail attachment," said Commander John Kish, CU Police. The stolen tickets were the print-at-home version. They were sent by the university to E-mail accounts set up by a person using stolen credit card numbers.

"The credit card holders found their bill coming and said, 'Wait a second, I didn't order any tickets for CU-CSU,'" said Kish.

The thief used an undisclosed internet site to sell them to unsuspecting fans. The tickets were legitimate, so none of the fans who sat in those seats were out any money. But it was another loss for the University of Colorado.

The CU football program has not disclosed how much was lost in this scam. "The victim is essentially the university athletic office. The people who purchased them did nothing wrong. We're hoping that someone who purchased them will call us," said Kish.

Those fans were seated in sections 105, 106, 217 and 219.

CU Police hope they can identify the Web site where the stolen tickets were sold, and fans can help lead them to the thief.

Some tickets for the CU home football games sell for more than $100 each.

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