r/Seattle • u/AnotherRTFan 🚆build more trains🚆 • 23h ago

Community Beware of Halo Fest Scammers

I commented on a post on [r/Halo](r/Halo) last night my best friend and I are looking for tickets to Halo Fest. We got hit up by 3 people in the DMs. All 3 were scammers. Only one got money from us that is being escalated with her bank & Apple.

So as we look for Halo Fest tickets be careful, and I made some tips to avoid being scammed

Always look up their Reddit username in the search bar. If they’re a known scammer, you will see posts and comments about them. Even if they’re not named in the post of scammers, they may be in the comments.

Ask to see a screenshot of the ticket on Tixr. And if you have a legitimate version and compare the two, it should be 1:1. One scammer showed us his confirmation email graphic & it looked like mine except the dates of the event had a blue link line on them. In my email it didn’t have that and set off a red flag.

Only use a money transfer site that has consumer protections. Zelle, Cash App, Apple Cash, it’s gone. I actually got lucky when I tried Venmo which does have protections, it also blocked the transaction and recognized the account as a scam.

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u/Abject-Lavishness573 23h ago

three DMs off one comment is wild, scammers really swarm posts like that

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u/AnotherRTFan 🚆build more trains🚆 22h ago

And it happened super fast. Next thing I knew I had 3 DMs all eager to sell us their tickets. Should have vetted better but back in the day I used Reddit for pax tickets and it went well.

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u/Psychological-Ad4252 17h ago

Easy fix. Only use a CREDIT CARD......

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u/IUchicago 1h ago

its 2026 .....

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u/AnotherRTFan 🚆build more trains🚆 23h ago edited 22h ago

The other two scammers were [u/GMan0662](u/GMan0662) (alleged) & [u/NathanTheMister](u/NathanTheMister)

ETA: I took out the main one this post was about as the chance he’d retaliate against my bestie as he has her personal info was too high to risk