Organisers of London 2012 Games of foreign Web sites are trying to buy tickets from fans "extremely cautious" about what brokers have warned. The warning occurred after the Sunday Times highlighted that foreign-based ticket can be bought through agents.
A journalist in the newspaper on August 9 from Germany Dertour agent for athletics finals bought a pair of tickets.
That is, while many British if they have been allocated tickets in the ballot system used here to see wait.
A spokesman for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) said that a 1 million tickets out of total 200 of the UK countries has been around the Olympic Committee.
LOCOG itself has 6.6 million which are being allocated through the ballot.
The spokesman said: "There are a number of unofficial websites claiming to sell tickets, we therefore advise people to be extremely cautious and vigilant when attempting to buy tickets and only purchase from an official source - if in doubt there is a url checker on our website which will identify official sources.
"There are a total of 8.8 million tickets on sale for London 2012. We have 6.6 million tickets available via our application process, whereas countries around the world have a total of approximately 1 million tickets between them for international fans."
Similar systems were used for the games in Beijing, Athens and Sydney, he said.
A full list of authorised re-sellers is available at www.tickets.london2012.com. Dertour is an authorised reseller of 2012 tickets.
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