The worldwide online ticket scam that hit the 2008 Beijing Olympics in China was widely reported in media around the world. Fans, including relatives and friends of athletes, paid up to £30,000 for non-existent tickets from a fake website that purported to sell high value tickets. 

The IFW was responsible for identifying and exposing a major fake ticketing website prior to the 2007 Rugby World Cup in Paris, France. IFW operatives tracked and monitored an individual in Spain, who built and developed the fake website over a six month period. 

A leading modelling agency in the United States complained that photographs of their models had been illegally copied from their website and used in a number of high profile Internet scams.