The Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) is investigating a series of ticket frauds for Taylor Swift's ongoing six-night Eras Tour run in Toronto.
As CityNews Toronto reports, police began receiving complaints last Thursday (November 14) — the first night of the pop star's Rogers Centre concerts — from customers about tickets they had purchased not being delivered, amounting to approximately 40 reports of fake or nonexistent tickets sold by the same vendor.
The estimated value for the fraudulent Eras Tour tickets is $70,000, HRPS said. They added that their Financial Crimes Unit continues to investigate, and that no arrests have been made as of yet.
Possibly not coincidentally, Peel Regional Police (PRP) identified a suspect accused of selling fraudulent tickets to music and sporting events in the GTA last week. An arrest warrant was issued for Jaspal Singh Thiara, 37, whom a PRP spokesperson warned may be still actively seeking additional victims in his fraud scheme amid Swift's hot-ticket residency, which continues through November 23.