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.

The Federal Trade Commission accused a Pikesville-based ticket broker in a lawsuit of using thousands of fake names, credit cards and SIM cards buy up Taylor Swift tickets and resell them.

The FTC is suing Key Investment Group LLC and its affiliates for allegedly using clandestine measures to bypass Ticketmaster security protocols and resell thousands of tickets to live events, including Taylor Swift's "Eras Tour",