The couple that made $265,000 selling fake Taylor Swift tickets has pleaded guilty to defrauding the public
The sold-out Eras Tour stopped in Toronto back in November 2024
An Ontario couple accused of selling fake tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour has pleaded guilty to defrauding the public.
Their scam amounted to over $265,000, a Milton court heard yesterday.
The sold-out Eras Tour stopped in Toronto for six nights back in November 2024. During the summer of 2023, Denise Tisor and her common-law partner, David Blake, began selling fake tickets, ultimately victimizing 107 fans they found online.
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“She has had no effort to repay anyone,” one of the victims told CTV News.
In 2024, as fans realized the tickets they’d paid for weren’t going to materialize, CTV located Tisor. At the time, she told reporters that the funds had been stolen from her by an unnamed third party. Court documents reviewed by the outlet indicate that both Tisor and Blake knowingly defrauded victims, and that no third party existed—in actuality, $139,144 of funds taken from victims were spent on online gambling.
They also withdrew over $297,000 in 350 ATM transactions between July 2023 and November 2024.
Tisor eventually posted an apology to Facebook, saying, “Addiction consumed my thinking. At the time, all I cared about was feeding that addiction. Looking back, I can see how much pain it caused, and I have to live with that every day.”
A sentencing date has not yet been set.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
