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Touts’ software booked 2,000 tickets a minute mumbaimirror/mumbai/crime/Touts-software-booked-2000-tickets-a-minute/articleshow/44258199.cms The gang behind Rs 2.82-crore scam employed several thousand usernames, used powerful software that generated over a hundred PNR numbers at a click. The Railway Protection Force investigation, into one of the biggest e-ticket tout scams, revealed that the gang of touts had several thousand IRCTC user names and a powerful software that can book over 2,000 tickets in the first minute as soon as the tatkal quota opened at 8 am. Investigations so far revealed that the scam is estimated to be worth Rs 2.82 crore, and the Railways are in the process of blocking 3,000-plus tickets. The software enabled the touts to prefill reservation data and feed it into the IRCTC server, and thus book the tickets instantaneously. It generated between 25 to 136 PNR numbers in one click.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:35:04 +0000

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