Two people believed to be associated with a cybercriminal group have been apprehended for stealing over 900 tickets to Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour concerts. Most of these stolen tickets were from this specific tour.
Tyrone Rose and Shamara Simmons were accused by the Queens District Attorney’s Office of taking part in a fraudulent scheme. They supposedly manipulated a loophole via an offshore vendor for StubHub, deceitfully selling tickets that had already been purchased from the company’s system. As per the allegations made by the prosecutors, they gained unauthorized access to the company’s network to obtain the URLs of these sold tickets and then resold them.
On Friday, I’ll be standing before the court alongside my partner, as we both enter our plea for charges filed against us on February 27. These charges include grand larceny, computer tampering, and conspiracy. If found guilty, we could potentially face prison sentences ranging from three to 15 years. The inquiry leading to these charges was handed over to prosecutors by StubHub; they have yet to respond to my request for comment.
Between June 2022 and July 2023, approximately 350 orders from StubHub for nearly 1,000 tickets were illegally obtained by a criminal group. Some of these individuals were employed at Sutherland, a third-party contractor based in Kingston, Jamaica. They exploited their access to StubHub’s computer system to discover a hidden entry point into the network where tickets were given a URL and placed in a queue to be emailed to the buyer. The criminals then obtained these URLs and sent them to others involved in the scam, who downloaded the tickets and resold them on StubHub. According to prosecutors, they are believed to have made over $600,000 from this illegal activity.
The majority of the tickets were for well-known musicians such as Taylor Swift, Adele, and Ed Sheeran, along with NBA matches and the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament.
The probe continues as we try to understand the full scope of the plan and who else might be involved. In their statement, the prosecutors mentioned some associates; one of these is still at large, while another has passed away.
According to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, as outlined in the charges, these suspects allegedly aimed to capitalize on the popularity of Taylor Swift’s concert tour and other notable events, thereby exploiting others for their own gain.
The typical cost for a ticket to Swift’s Eras Tour was reported by Victory Live, a company specializing in live event ticketing technology, to be approximately $529. The most expensive locations for tickets were found in Indianapolis, Miami, and Vancouver, Canada, with prices reaching as high as $3,071, $2,578, and $2,952 respectively.
Over the course of 21 months, the tour sold a total of $2,077,618,725 in tickets.
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