Ticketmaster, the world’s largest online box office, is promising for the first time to crack down on industrial-scale scalpers to bar them from using hundreds — sometimes thousands — of fake Ticketmaster accounts to buy up and resell tickets for concerts, theatre and sporting events.

The move, announced in a letter to U.S. lawmakers late last week, comes after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit in September. The multimillion-dollar suit accuses Ticketmaster and its parent company, LiveNation, of "illegal ticket resale tactics" and "deceiving artists and consumers about price and ticket limits."

The letter’s details were first published by Billboard, the American music and entertainment magazine.

For years, fans trying to log on to the Ticketmaster website to buy thei

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