Fearless fans turn furious over fake Taylor Swift tickets

Fans who bought fake Taylor Swift tickets to Tuesday's concert and got shutout at the doors are probably -as her song says -"Never, Ever Getting Back Together" with the hundreds of dollars they spent.

Carissa Settle is out $350. And she's not alone.

She arrived atRexall PlaceTuesday evening, waited in line, butwhen the attendant scanned the ticketsthe machine made "a funny little noise," Settle said.

The ticket takertold her"these tickets have already been used," then apologized saying several groups had been scammed the same way.

Settle went to the nearest police station to file a report. She said she met about 10 people there who hadall been caught in the same trap.

"We laid all our tickets out and looked at them," she said, "and we all had the same seats."

Police said Wednesday they're investigating the sale of counterfeit tickets. A police spokesperson saidthey'd heard complaints from several people who bought tickets but were turned away at the doors.

Settle said she bought her tickets in May. She connected with the seller through a Facebook group. A woman had posted two tickets for sale. Settle senther a text messageand they arranged to meet at a Tim Hortons in the west end.

The seller told Settle shebought the tickets on the Stub Hub website. Settle gota receipt.

"I'm finding out that more and more people were sold tickets by this same lady," she said. "And one lady is desperately looking for tickets for tonight's (Wednesday's) show. She'd bought them for her nine-year-old daughter for last night's show, and her daughter was in tears because they had the same problem, they couldn't get in."

Ticket scams arefairly common.

Police in Vancouver charged two people last week with selling fake Taylor Swift tickets.

And an Edmonton man was charged in late July with more than 100 counts of fraud in connection to an online ticket scam that targeted people across the country.