COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — All the victims wanted were concert tickets, but their stories are the same. It started with someone claiming to be a Fort Carson soldier about to deploy who can’t use his concert tickets.
“He was getting deployed, and he was trying to sell the tickets really fast,” said Paige Salles of Colorado Springs.
She met someone on Bumble who claimed to be a soldier named Gavin Pobst.
“I see people selling tickets like that here all the time, especially in Colorado Springs. They buy these tickets, they get deployed somewhere and can’t go anymore,” Palles said.
When she and her friends got to the concert in Denver last May, they found out the tickets were fake, and they were in good company.
“We were sitting there talking to the girls, and they’re showing me their tickets, and they’re the exact same ones that I have,” said Salles.
She took to Facebook to warn others, but found out the problem was much bigger.
“We join this little Facebook group, and there’s over 60 of us,” Salles said.
Dozens of people from all over the country are sharing their stories on social media about buying tickets from “Gavin.”
Kenzie Bourbon in Missouri said she contacted Fort Carson’s Criminal Investigation Division to report a crime, but has received little response as more people report being scammed in the Facebook group.
“It’s really just a principle of nothing is being done to make him stop doing this, and there’s really just kind of been no awareness brought to it at all,”…
