Taylor Swift tickets scam costs distraught family $15,600

A Canadian household has been near distraught aft buying fake Taylor Swift tickets which outgo them $15,600 USD. 

Ottawa mom Mel Keogh purchased 28 tickets for a radical of Swiftie household members who had been excited to experience the Toronto Eras Tour show connected November 23. 

She utilized an autarkic summons broker, which she did not sanction but said she had utilized before, that turned retired to beryllium a scam. 

'To interruption it to the girls that we weren't going - was horrendous,' Keogh told CTV News Ottawa while warring backmost tears.

Keogh said her family, including her super-fan girl Jordan, 15, were devastated by the quality aft spending weeks making bracelets and choosing outfits. 

'(It's) each we've been talking astir for implicit a year,' Mel told CTV News. 

'They were perfectly ecstatic. My daughter, I tin talk to her specifically, knows each Taylor Swift song, each word, each album, each era, everything.'

Keogh said she booked the tickets successful August reasoning they were the existent deal. 

Her radical of 28 teamed up with 4 neighbors, spending $788 CAD connected each ticket, oregon $561.89 successful USD. 

Keogh's household made a full nonaccomplishment of $22,000 CAD ($15, 687 USD), portion her neighbors mislaid astir $3,000 CAD ($2,139 USD). 

They planned retired a magical evening for Swift's past Toronto show, including booking limousines and hotels for the once-in-a-lifetime experience. 

Mel's sister-in-law Patricia Keogh said she had utilized the autarkic summons broker earlier for respective concerts and sporting events. 

She said everything seemed morganatic during the buying process - arsenic they received confirmation codes and spot numbers by email and she felt they had done their research. 

'It's gone, it's each gone,' Patricia Keogh told CTV News.

'(It is) truly upsetting that we fto our household down,' she added. 'How could we person not seen this? How did we get duped? We're astute people.' 

The Eras Tour has sold retired done the archetypal vendor, Ticketmaster, and resale tickets outgo a whopping $3,000 to $5,000 CAD. 

Mel Keogh said her household can't spend the resale but she hopes there's 'still a mode to get them to the concert'. 

'I inactive hope,' she said. 

The household has filed a constabulary study and contacted lawyers successful the hopes of recouping the costs. 

The highest-grossing circuit of each time, the Eras Tour began successful Glendale, Arizona, connected March 17, 2023, and aft 149 shows, it volition adjacent connected December 8 successful Vancouver, British Columbia.