BALTIMORE — A Glen Burnie man is warning other concert-goers about an impostor pretending to be a famous singer.
Moerio Zeigler recently lost hundreds of dollars after trying to buy discounted concert tickets from someone posing as Alicia Keys.
“I haven’t been to concerts in a while, but yah, this was one I wanted to go to,” said Zeigler.
Until he saw tickets at MGM National Harbor, a more intimate and pricier venue, were going for hundreds of dollars.
“I think like $400-$500 a seat at MGM, so I couldn’t afford to pay that per person to go to MGM and I was just trying to get a discounted rate,” Zeigler recalled.
He then found a Facebook fan page for the singer and posted about buying discounted tickets. Someone responded asking him to download Telegram, a messaging service, and when they started chatting, the person claimed to be the real Alicia Keys.
“I remember saying, ‘I went to school for electrical engineering, and I’ve been studying computer stuff recently, this could be a scam,’ blah blah blah. And then, they were like, ‘You know, I get so upset when fans think it’s not me,’ and then they showed me a driver’s license, and it looked like Alicia’s name and it didn’t go by last name Keys. It had another last name, which was a real name I thought, at least from Siri, and it just looked like a legitimate New York ID. And I just thought wow, you must really be Alicia Keys,” said Zeigler.
She supposedly offered him two tickets for $150 each. Zeigler sent the…
