Ticket Scam at Louvre

"The museum alerted investigators to the frequent presence of two Chinese tourist guides, suspected of bringing groups of Chinese tourists to the museum by fraudulently reusing the same tickets for different visitors. Other guides were subsequently suspected of similar practices."

Interesting article, Phyllis. I am surprised this continued to happen.

In August 2019 the Paris Museum Pass rules changed allowing only one visit per venue per Pass whereas before before you could enter the same museum multiple times. At that time it was announced that it was because big Asian groups were passing Museum Passes off to subsequent groups so they were cheating the system then.

I can't believe after 7 years this continues to happen and the Louvre officials were not aware of it?

Right, Pam, the issue had been around for years! Here's a thread on the subject from 2019.
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/france/if-you-plan-to-visit-the-louvre

This most recent scam may have been for single-use tickets versus passes. I know they uncovered large batches of counterfeit tickets once before, in 2018 I believe?

They reported this new infraction to the police about a year and a half ago, took this amount of time to investigate, AND two Louvre employees were arrested, too. It seems this one was more complicated.
This one was set up a differently from the first scam where the Chinese groups passed the same tickets back and forth.

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There are so many ways to deal with tour group abuse other than not allowing ordinary single ticket traveler to not have all day access. Require tour groups to have single use quite different tickets from ordinary travelers is just one idea. But instead they dealt with the Chinese abuse by making the experience worse for everyone else and then compounded this by raising the price for those outside the EU.

Back in the day we would visit in the morning leave for lunch and a stroll in the park and then come back for a couple of hours in the afternoon. Now with a single ticket you get access to each wing once and once you leave the perimeter cannot re-enter. So now to see much of the louvre you have to do it in a single very long visit which is both tiring and less intellectually interesting for most who get overloaded and exhausted.

I have dealt with the issue by just joining the Friends of the Louvre,

Yes, it's more expensive but.. I can go anytime I want for as long or as short a time as I want.

That is what I did too but it is a very expensive solution for someone who plans to visit the Louvre once on a trip.