Ticket fraud — counterfeit tickets, duplicate resale of the same seat, ticket-scalping at inflated prices with no benefit to the actual organiser — is common enough at popular African events that organisers often resort to manual guest-list checks, which don't scale past a certain event size.
Zuma Events issues each ticket as a unique, cryptographically signed record tied to the specific purchase transaction, scanned and invalidated on use so it cannot be duplicated or reused, with payment settling directly to the organiser's Zuma Wallet rather than through a separate ticketing vendor with its own delayed payout schedule.
Tying ticket issuance and payment settlement into the same system — rather than a ticketing vendor and a payment processor that are only loosely connected — closes two fraud vectors at once: duplicate tickets, because each one is cryptographically unique and tracked, and payment leakage, because the organiser is paid through the same rail that sold the ticket, with no intermediary able to sit on funds or under-report sales.
