A Georgia father says he lost hundreds of dollars to a scammer.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — There are just three home games left in the season for the Tennessee Vols. Saturday’s homecoming game is sold out, but there are tickets for re-sale online. However, ticket officials said buying them there comes at a great risk.
Father Donnie Burch from Augusta, Georgia, tried buying tickets to the Vols game so his teenage son could go to the big game. He was scammed out of hundreds of dollars.
“It seemed legit and I think a lot of them on there are,” he said.
Some are, just not the tickets he bought. Burch tried to buy a couple on Facebook from a woman claiming to have four of them.
“She says, ‘Ok, how about $100,’ and I said, ‘Sure, you know, that’d be great at that point.’ Don’t get me wrong they were still $300, but $100 wasn’t out of the question,” Burch said.
He said he transferred the scammer through Zelle and that’s when, he said, the excuses started rolling in.
“I’m talking to my husband and I don’t see the transfer,” Burch said, quoting the woman. “She said, ‘My husband is at work, as soon as he gets home!'”
It soon fizzled down to silence, and…