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Traci Doering Winslow was selling 4 tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Indianapolis for Nov. 2nd, 2024. My wife first saw Traci’s post on a Facebook group called “Buckland Ohio Memories”, but the post has since been deleted. My wife went back and forth with Traci via Facebook messenger. Traci sent my wife pictures of the tickets and said they would transfer via email after payment was made. Traci’s preferred payment method was through Zelle and my wife had asked her if she used Venmo. Traci did not. I downloaded Zelle and tried to send money to the email address supplied ([email protected]) but this account was not registered to Zelle. Traci then asked to send money to the phone number, (262) 399-2086, via Zelle. This phone number was registered to someone named VERNITA and the area code was from southeast Wisconsin. I questioned Traci about this and she claimed that wasn’t right and asked to switch over to PayPal. We tried paying her multiple times over PayPal to the account @MoserAllisonMarie. Both of my credit cards and my wife’s PayPal account were declined for payment. We asked if we could meet in person, but Traci said we should try Venmo (she previously claimed she did not have Venmo). The account Traci gave us on Venmo is @Jill-Pennington-13. I tried to send money for just 2 of the tickets, but again my payment was declined. After this failed we asked again to meet in person. Traci said she could the following week when she would be visiting her family in town (apparently she doesn’t live in the area anymore). I questioned her more on all these different people and different accounts. She gave us one more number to try on Zelle, 317-746-4027, which is an area code in Indianapolis for someone named Turner. Fortunately Zelle limits transactions to $500 for new transfers. We made the transfer to Traci who confirmed she got it and wanted us to send the rest, but we explained the transfer cap on Zelle. Traci gave us another number, (707) 460-5336, which was an account registered to Hayden with area code in Northern California. This is when I told my wife that we would not be sending any more money. I start messaging Traci direct through my wife’s messenger asking for our money back, and that we were not comfortable going forward any further with anymore transactions unless she met us in person. It’s been crickets since then.