Queensland Rugby League claims their crackdown on State of Origin ticket scalpers has put the clamps on Sporting bodies such as the Queensland Rugby League have built up files on known scalpers. THEY prey on State of Origin fans and even taunt those trying to catch them, but the Queensland Rugby League believe they are winning the war against ticket scalpers. With only one match in Queensland this year, tickets to tonight's sellout at the 52,500-capacity Suncorp Stadium have been highly sought and some fans have been stung trying to buy seats through online forums. QRL finance and corporate manager Rebecca Baguley said the organisation had a team of five people monitoring websites such as Gumtree and eBay for people trying to on-sell tickets. The QRL even posts notices on these sites warning sellers that offering tickets for sale on the internet, even at face value, breaches their terms and conditions and could result in those seats being cancelled. The cancelled seats are given to charity. They also work with Ticketek, Suncorp Stadium, police and the Australian Rugby Union, who recently hired private firm Trade Mark Investigation Services to help identify known scalpers for the British and Irish Lions tour. "We've got staff monitoring any internet medium to ensure that tickets aren't being posted on there because while the legislation allows people to sell a ticket for above the face value by 10 per cent, that's actually not what our ticket conditions are," Ms Baguley said Anyone that posts a ticket via an internet medium for resale is in breach of our ticket conditions. Scams include people offering tickets for sale and asking for payment before mailing the tickets, which never arrive. Another problem is organised scalpers, some of whom work in packs to buy up blocks of seats and sell them at inflated prices. "We've got so many files on known scalpers," Ms Baguley said. One scalper, we've had him scalping seats for the last five years. They send us abusive emails and tell us, 'ha ha you can't catch us, you don't know what seats we've got'. An ARU spokesman said: "In Brisbane, the ARU hired undercover police to pick up scalpers, as it is against the law to on-sell tickets at an inflated rate." Ms Baguley said there would be a similar presence for Origin II. "If the police find somebody trying to scalp a seat on the night, they will be arrested," she said. If someone genuinely cannot go to a match, they are advised to sell their ticket to a friend for face value as there are no refunds. The problem is, people make the market for the scalpers. If you don't have anyone that's willing to buy, you don't have anything to sell. I honestly think the instances of it have decreased. Maybe we're getting a little bit smarter about how we deal with it. Maybe because people have been stung before, it's word of mouth. David Manteuffel, from Bli Bli, paid $296 to an account number a week ago for two tickets so he could treat his 15-year-old son, who is recovering from a badly broken leg. Mr Manteuffel advertised on Gumtree seeking tickets and was contacted by a man, saying he was in Rockhampton and couldn't make it to the game. The tickets never arrived and the account number was connected to a reloadable cash card rather than a bank account. "Hook, line and sinker I was," Mr Manteuffel said. I've tried to phone this guy and the phone's just turned off. Cathy Figueroa, of Calamvale, posted an ad on Gumtree warning others after she was duped out of $300, a 50 per cent deposit for four tickets. "It could have been worse, it could have been $600, but obviously now we're not going to the game," Ms Figueroa said. Gumtree urges its users to "ensure that all transactions take place locally and in-person."