This is when Vicky found out it was not Elizabeth she was dealing with and her account had been hijacked by scammers using Elizabeth’s account to post in various groups.
Vicky said: “They manipulate you into thinking that you owe them, they were like ‘yeah we can do one ticket at a time’, so you feel like this person is trusting me, so… I should trust them.”
“They’re feeding off your desperation,” she said adding the tickets were “like the Willy Wonka golden ticket”.
She said both she and Elizabeth have been “wronged” by the fraudsters.
She said: “There are red flags when you look back and you think ‘how stupid could I have been?'”
She said the account name did not line up but after checking out the Facebook profile and “because you’re so desperate for the tickets, you’re just so entrusting”.
She said: “You’ve only paid for one ticket, but they’re sending you two, it’s so well planned and thought through that the manipulation in your brain is so much.”
“In hindsight… you feel like an idiot and that’s the horrible thing,” Vicky said.
“That’s why some people will not want to speak up about being scammed because you just feel… a bit stupid you fell for it.”
Sadly she said she was “not alone because this has probably happened to a lot of people”.
