LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- We hear about social media scams all the time with scammers selling fake concert rickets and other goods. But, what we are seeing more and more of is scammers hacking into people's Facebook pages.
A mother and daughter were scammed out of concert tickets earlier this year.
They found some Taylor Swift tickets online from a Facebook post from a mutual friend. He was selling four tickets at $350 a piece.
They Venmo'd him $1,400, and the tickets never came.
Turns out, someone hacked his account four months ago and they had no idea.
He was fooled into a phishing message. It claimed that he violated Facebook terms and said his page would be suspended if he did not respond in 24 hours.
The link asks you to verify your name, email, and password, quickly giving the scammers all the information they need to get into your page.
So, don't turn into a scammer. Never reply to a Facebook message, email, or text message that asks for login credentials.
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