A Windsor woman hoping to attend this weekend's Taylor Swift concert in Detroit is warning others after she was scammed out of $800.
Jodi Nesbitt responded to a Facebook post selling tickets that appeared to be from a friend she knew. In reality, her friend's Facebook account had been hacked and someone else was posting on her page.
Nesbitt communicated with the individual over Facebook Messenger and agreed to transfer funds to a Gmail account.
It was then she got a weird feeling and asked the person some more personal questions. When the person couldn't answer those questions, they broke off communications.
"This wasn't on [Facebook] Marketplace, this wasn't on Kijiji, this was actually somebody that I believed was on Facebook that I had been friends with for years on Facebook, and they never said that they had been hacked on Facebook," said Nesbitt.
Windsor police have been notified and Nesbitt's bank is conducting an investigation.
Nesbitt is now warning others to take steps to identify the person behind the account before any transactions take place.
"Never trust it, ask them for their phone number and only ask them questions that they would know and if you don't know them well enough, then just assume it's a scam," said Nesbitt.
Nesbitt was hoping to take her eight-year-old granddaughter to the concert. Instead, she got an important lesson on internet safety.
"My granddaughter was just devastated. She said 'I'm not devastated as much about Taylor Swift as I am about the bad people in this world,'" said Nesbitt.
