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I received a pop-up on my phone from facebook marketplace saying that there were Taylor Swift concert tickets for sale for her concert in New Orleans in October 2024. I messaged him to see how much the tickets were. The post was from "Bradley Hilderbrand" and we had two mutual friends. He had 4 tickets in a row for $400 each. He told me to send half of the money via venmo (to a person named Katherine Merlos @yoongikat and receive two tickets before sending the full $1600. I agreed, so I sent the $800. After I sent it, he then said ticketmaster wouldn't let him send only 2 tickets, he had made a mistake, that he had to send the full four tickets to my email address at the same time, so I needed to send another $400 to a different venmo address. None of the other venmo addresses sent would work, which was really strange. I offered to meet in person and bring cash. I tried to call him, he wouldn't answer. He kept insisting that I send $400 more dollars and he would go ahead and send all 4 tickets, and then I would owe him $400 more dollars. I kept asking him to please send the $800 back because all of this was making me feel uncomfortable. He kept saying to trust him, etc. I googled the name "Bradley Hilderbrand" that I thought I was buying the tickets from and called the phone number associated with him. He answered the phone and said he had been hacked and that people had been calling him all day about the Taylor Swift tickets. I need to figure out a way to get the $800 sent back asap.