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Someone posted in a woodhaven high school track group text (that has parents and students in it) for Taylor Swift tickets. You are supposed to have to be approved to be in the text group so was presumed to be a parent at the high school. We used paypal friend/family transaction, because it was an individual not a business, but that meant it wasn't protected, so we are out the money for no tickets. They had asked if we had a ticketmaster account because they would transfer the tickets in ticketmaster. They sent screenshots of the tickets. They waited for the money to post. I said we can see it posted. They said okay sending the tickets now. Email never came. They then said they couldn't transfer only three tickets since they bought five and offered the other two an additional $400. I said send the tickets and we will send the balance since we already showed good faith sending money before tickets were received once. Never heard again. Our paypal is linked to bank account not credit card, so we tried to file dispute through bank but they said not very likely since we authorized the transaction. I did it thinking that paypal backed digital tickets but apparently only for the business transactions. We didn't know that you could call an individual a business transaction. It's unfortunate. We will file it with FTC, BBB and police to help track fraud and scammers. Hopefully somewhere along the line it helps. Posted as Betty Hutchinson with number to text 623-377-4556 (turned out to be a google voice account). Paypal to Angie Moore on 6/4/24. I have transaction ID but not sure if that is considered sensitive info so didn't put here