One Taylor Swift fan was left heartbroken after she was scammed out of £100 for a Taylor Swift ticket by a friend.

Holly - whose name has been changed - sadly missed out on tickets for Taylor Swift's first UK tour in six years when they originally went on sale. The global superstar is playing her first UK gig at the Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh tonight and will play two more shows over the weekend.

The 17-year-old Swiftie, based in Livingston, West Lothian, hoped to get tickets for the Saturday night show and was given a glimmer of hope when a friend told her someone she knew was selling tickets. Holly told the Mirror: "My friend told me a girl she went to school with was trying to sell her tickets because she couldn't make it. So I messaged her privately and asked if I could get one and she said yes."

Holly saw a post from the friend of her friend who shared that she had four tickets to sell and wanted £175 each for them. Holly was ecstatic when she heard this as some tickets for the gig were going for over £800. When Holly reached out, she did not feel too wary as the seller sent her the original confirmation email for the purchased tickets. She added: "She seemed friendly, her messages were sent quickly and included kisses. I also went down her profile like you're told to do and it all looked real and legit. It went back years."

Holly wasn't naive and was aware of scams, so she asked if she could send over £100 first and then a further £70 when she got the ticket. The girl agreed and sent Holly the bank details to transfer the cash. However, this was when Holly noticed a red flag. The bank details the girl had sent were under a different name. Holly added: "She told me her online banking was down and she couldn't receive bank transfers. She said I could send it to her friend's account and put her name down as a reference."

Even though she was concerned, Holly trusted what the girl was saying and did exactly what she had asked. Holly sent over £100 to the account and then sent a screenshot of the confirmation that the money had been sent. Holly's bank Natwest did issue a scam warning before the payment was sent. However, Holly felt everything seemed "legit" so pushed forward and sent over the money.

After the money was sent, Holly sent the girl a message but didn't initially hear anything back from her. After sending a follow up message, Holly noted that the girl's overall demeanour had shifted and the way she wrote had become more "blunt". The girl told her that she had not received the money yet, and even though Holly protested that it had been sent, she was then blocked by the seller - with the ticket unsent.

Holly said: "I couldn't believe it, I told my friend who knew her and she was like 'oh my god no way' I was sobbing, like I was heartbroken. I've been waiting for so long to see Taylor Swift and I was just gutted."

Holly contacted her bank and explained what happened, who then thankfully gave her the £100 she had lost. However, even though she has not lost out financially, it has really knocked her. She added: "I trusted her, and this has just really put me off, I will never buy tickets from a friend of a friend. My friend is absolutely gutted as well, this girl always seemed nice at school and she didn't think she would do anything like this. She was more upset for me because she knew how much I really wanted to go."

Holly has thought about trying to reach out to the girl again, but she said she wouldn't know what to say. Alongside this, she has thought about reporting the incident to the police but she is so concerned about the repercussions she could face if something happened to the girl and it was linked back to her. She said: "It's happened, and it's a horrible thing to happen. But I don't think there's much I can do about it."

According to recent reports from Natwest Bank customers, one in four Taylor Swift scams were carried out by "friends" - or accounts who appeared to be a friend but really was a criminal impersonating a profile and targeting that person’s friends to sell tickets. Natwest says the average amount lost to these types of scams sits at around £376. Sadly, Holly has not managed to get tickets for this weekend's show in Edinburgh but says she will keep an eye out on official resale sites such as Ticketmaster "just to be safe".