Taylor Swift fans targeted in tickets scam weeks before Australian Eras tour

Scammers are taking control of social media profiles to sell fake Taylor Swift tickets for her upcoming Australian tour by hacking accounts and then targeting the account’s list of friends.

The consumer watchdog has received 273 reports of people buying fake tickets for the Eras tour, driven by those responding to compromised social media posts.

Fans have lost more than $135,000, a figure that is expected to rise in the weeks leading up to the series of seven sold-out Melbourne and Sydney events, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission…