The Taylor Swift ticket scramble for her Lincoln Financial Field concerts (May 12–14) has been a boom to scammers. Erin McCarthy, however, found a savvy, local purchaser whose methodology she described in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Commercial site prices have been at least $1,300 a seat, sending FOMO-fearing fans to other sources.

After bypassing several sketchy seat sources, Danielle D’Achille of Conshohocken nabbed two tickets last week from a Facebook seller.

The pair cost her $110 apiece, a price D’Achille agreed to pay only after thoroughly vetting her seller and seeing the physical admittance paperwork on FaceTime.

“I’ve been psychotic about following all this stuff,” D’Achille said of her scam-revealing tactics. “I understand if you’re not someone who is chronically on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, all these social media, you wouldn’t know to look for these [telltale signs of fraud].”

Teresa Murray, a consumer watchdog for the Public Interest Research Group, Denver, said thieves lie in wait for conditions just like the current Taylor Swift mania.

“There are con artists out there that have been thinking for a long time about how to scam people, whether it’s for Taylor Swift or Beyoncé or a 76ers playoff game,” she said. “For a lot of people, going to a Taylor Swift concert in person makes them just desperate, and desperate people sometimes do irrational things.”

More on Taylor Swift ticket scams, see The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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2023 Concert footage from Taylor Swift.