Hackers take over Utah man's Facebook, scam buyers into fake Taylor Swift tickets

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Hackers take over Utah man's Facebook, scam buyers into fake Taylor Swift tickets
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Scammers are taking advantage of the Taylor Swift frenzy, hacking Facebook accounts and attempting to sell fake concert tickets.

Bountiful resident Morgan Treft said after buying tickets through a third party for the pop star's Seattle concert, she did not think twice about buying tickets from a person posting on a local Facebook group. She started messaging the person via Facebook Messenger.

She decided to take action, went back to the Bountiful man's Facebook page and messaged his wife, who was tagged on his account.Bountiful resident Morgan Treft says she got scammed after she tried to buy Taylor Swift concert tickets from a Facebook page she later learned had been hacked. Jasperson believes the hacker changed the account's email twice, wiping out his original email address and leaving him without a way of getting back into his account. He said the scammer has posted about selling Taylor Swift tickets to multiple Facebook groups he was a part of. Jasperson has since set up a second account to monitor the hacker.

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