The Federal Trade Commission accused a shadowy group of flooding Ticketmaster with fake accounts to purchase and resell tickets to concerts by Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and other top artists.

A ticket-reselling operation used a network of fake accounts to bypass Ticketmaster’s security protocols to grab hundreds of thousands of tickets to hugely popular tours for artists like Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen and then re-sold them for millions,

The post FTC Sues Broker Who Allegedly Bought 400,000 Tickets to “The Eras Tour” and Other Concerts appeared first on Consequence. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued a ticket reseller over an allegedly multi-million dollar scalping ring targeting major concerts and events,