Premier League football clubs cancel hundreds of thousands of fake accounts targeting tickets

• Premier League football clubs cancel hundreds of thousands of fake accounts targeting tickets
• Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea all step up bans and block resale groups and bots
• Overseas resellers are using proxy services and bot software to flood systems

Premier League football clubs are stepping up action against ticket touting, cancelling hundreds of thousands of fake accounts and banning fans found to be involved in resale scams.

The BBC reports Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea have all carried out large-scale investigations to tackle the problem, which often rely on bots and proxy services.

Liverpool football club said it closed 145,000 fake ticket accounts in the past two years, and handed out 1,114 lifetime bans last season alone.