a 16-year-old and her mother thought they had lost out on seeing Taylor Swift's eras tour but it turns out it's not a cruel summer for the teen after all the pair was given the ultimate surprise this morning from the concert's official ticketing partner ctv's Rahim Lani is live with more on the great reveal Raheem Nathan and Michelle good afternoon this truly was a once in an era surprise for a massive Taylor Swift F but to get the full picture I need to give you some backstory first this all started last August when Taylor Swift announced her Canadian tour dates in Toronto that's when 16-year-old Maya asked her mother for tickets now like many people she was weight listed and turned to someone on social media who claimed they were selling tickets unfortunately Maya's mother was scammed out of $1,600 and still had no tickets while our digital team at CTV News covered the story last August and RBC who's the official ticketing partner of the Swift's eras tour came across it and wanted to help and so this morning with the help of Maya's M we set up secret cameras to capture them arriving at this Bank branch in vaugh shortly after telling her she was just entering a contest for Taylor Swift tickets we revealed she was actually being gifted to concert tickets watch this with the help of your mom RBC and AV on rewards Maya you're going to the Taylor Swift concert in troto actually like for real for real yes like for real for real for real it's still crazy to me that she like even after that she still kind of went for it and that's how much I love her cuz she loved me and did that for me so I love her just as much even more we've put last year behind us we've really forgotten about it and when I was reached out by email I was like do I respond do I not respond is this another scam my husband's like leave it don't respond I'm like no no I have to if there was a chance and it was from then on it was like the best feeling ever like I was waiting for this day for so long now there's still one question left to be answered who is Maya going to take to the concert she says she doesn't know right now is it going to be her mother or one of her friends but she's got some time to figure that out as for RBC they say they've actually already given away thousands of tickets to the concerts across Toronto and Vancouver and they're going to continue to do these memorable surprises in the weeks leading up and the months leading up to the Taylor Swift concerts reporting live I'm Raheem Lani Michelle I'll send it back to you how fabulous is that thank you Raheem