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The Perfect Scam

Taylor Swift Fans Targeted in Concert Ticket Scams

The Perfect Scam

AARP

True Crime, Aarp, Fraud, Society & Culture, Scam, Crime, Bobsullivan

4.5980 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Lisa is an avid concertgoer with extensive experience buying and selling tickets online. So when pop megastar Taylor Swift announces she’s coming to town, Lisa is determined to find the highly sought-after tickets for her teenage daughter and her three friends. After messaging dozens of online ticket sellers and weeding out apparent scams, she finally finds a local man selling four tickets. She is reassured when he offers to transfer the tickets to her via Apple Wallet before receiving payment. The tickets look great, and the girls are overjoyed. When a friend raises suspicions, Lisa drives to the box office to verify the tickets only to discover that they are very convincing fakes.

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0:00.0

This week on The Perfect Scam.

0:03.4

And he was like, that sounds kind of fishy.

0:06.1

So I decided to drive down to the venue with the tickets,

0:10.0

because it was still the day before the show.

0:12.0

I just started to have a weird sense about it, you know?

0:15.0

And even told Kevin I was doing this.

0:18.0

Like we were still in communications and he was like, yeah, no problem.

0:21.0

Like, you're going to find out that they're totally legit you know.

0:27.6

Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

0:31.9

It's hard to overstate the excitement around Taylor Swift's concert

0:35.7

tour this year and how hard it was to score tickets to one of her sold-out shows, which

0:42.2

is why these four teenage girls are screaming one afternoon in June.

0:48.0

Their moms had managed to get four tickets to a show at Detroit's Ford Field. But those screams of joy, well they'd turn to tears soon

0:57.0

after, and then those tears would turn to, well you know I love a happy ending and we'll get to that. But first, let's meet one very

1:06.4

devoted mom and a very determined concert goer. My name is Lisa Turner. I live in Berkeley, Michigan. And where is Berkeley, Michigan?

1:15.4

Just outside of Detroit. Is there a thing that Berkeley is known for?

1:19.0

We're right off the Woodward corridor, so we're part of the Woodward Dream Cruise,

1:22.9

which is the largest international single day car event in the world.

1:27.7

And I think that's about it.

1:30.6

We're just a small little community kind of surrounded by larger ones.

1:36.0

Lisa is a self-proclaimed professional concert goer.

1:41.0

I mean if I had to give myself a name yeah nobody has called me that I don't get paid to go to

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