I have just come so close to losing £600 for oasis tickets from a cloned Facebook account

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I am so annoyed that I was drawn into a scam. I was literally one minute to losing £600. I don’t even like oasis but my dds both want to go

an old work colleague posted that she had tickets to the Manchester gig. I knew her really well 15 years ago but we are just Facebook friends now. I contacted her on messenger and all looked fine. She asked for my ticket master email to transfer.
she asked if I could transfer the money into her friend who bought the tickets account and I suddenly thought this could be a scam. I asked her how she was and mentioned out old boss and she replied “ I’m good thanks”. So I asked her for a phone number so I could check it was not a hacked account. It then became obvious. Applying pressure and telling me they want to just communicate on Facebook.
they then sent me there bank details and edited them message immediately From a Chinese name on the account to a very British name.

the only info I have given them is my email. I will change my password and of course they have my Facebook profile.
I am so relieved I realised.

Remove the colleague off your list too as the account is compromised.

There are so many of these scams happening at the moment with oasis tickets.

2 of my friends accounts were hacked and posts appeared selling oasis tickets at £200 each.

One mutual friend lost £900.

I very nearly got caught by the same thing. A friend was selling 4 tickets for her cousin at face value. Sent the Ticketmaster link but the bank account that came back to pay was a Revolut account and my friend wasn't friends on FB with the account name person. I messaged saying we'd collect the tickets in person and pay cash and the reply was a very rude "why didn't you say that in the first place". Scammers are everywhere.

This kept happening to my BIL’s wife’s sister (SIL’s sister?) with Taylor Swift tickets. She kept getting hacked and one of her friends nearly fell for the same scam.

It’s horrible as you are quite vulnerable as you think you know it’s the person, so your guard is down a bit.

No don't remove them, tell them what's happened so they can tighten their own security settings

Ticketmaster has its own built in way to sell tickets on to someone else. Selling on Facebook is always a scam.

I have reported to face book and contacted her. She is aware of it but even though she has put warnings in her real feed they are not on the cloned page. Facebook have removed the cloned page but I am sure they will just set others up

Thanks very much for this! I received something similar and was nearly convinced, but something wasn’t quite right so I thought I’d do a little digging. No help at all from FB, PayPal or ActionFraud, but MumsNet nailed it straight away! Thank you once again.

My next door neighbour’s account was hacked and was offering Oasis tickets too. Facebook wasn’t interested! The hackers private messaged both me and DH in totally different tones that suited the way he would genuinely message us so they must be using AI to make it more believable. They even signed off with the short version of his name rather than the full version that he used for FB. Luckily for us, we assume everything is a scam these days!