INDIANA — A concert ticket scam is robbing people of their hard-earned money and a good time.
In the current scam, a “seller” posts on Facebook that they have tickets to the Morgan Wallen concert at Ruoff Music Center on Thursday, June 16.
Once the person buying sends money, tickets are never sent. Instead, they are blocked on the app.
Morgan Wallen concert tickets are going for top dollar, which is why the Facebook post caught their attention.
The person posting is selling tickets for $100.
Two Greenwood residents WRTV spoke to fell for the scam.
“It did sound too good to be true at first, but we were also like maybe if she’s just trying to get rid of them,” Maggie Stanley said.
The poster told both women similar stories.
“She told me that her mom had passed away and that she had to go out of town for the funeral,” Kennedy Syx said.
Stanley heard a similar story.
“The reason why she couldn’t go to the concert was because her mom passed away,” Stanley said.
Both women were excited to go to the concert.
“We were almost in tears we were so excited that we could’ve been able to go,” Stanley said. “Just because we love Morgan Wallen, we love Hardy and we would have had our little girl dream come true moment.”
WRTV searched for tickets on Facebook and found dozens of the same exact posts on several different local groups, all with a different seller’s name.
“It’s angering because they’re getting so much money from people who want to go out and have a good time and have these…
