Influencer Scammed Out Of $5,000 In Tickets To Morgan Wallen’s ‘Sand In My Boots’ Festival

Hey, on the bright side, now she doesn’t have to go to Morgan Wallen’s festival.

Last year, country superstar Morgan Wallen announced he was taking over the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama in 2025, calling it the Sand In My Boots festival and bringing along a lot of his friends and favorite artists to join him on the lineup for the 3-day event.

The multi-genre festival, which is taking place May 16-18, will feature performances from Post Malone, Brooks & Dunn, Hardy, Riley Green, T-Pain, Diplo, Wiz Khalifa, and many more. And despite the insane prices, which started at $400 for a general admission pass, tickets sold out within two hours of going on sale back in October.

It’s clearly going to be one of the biggest music festivals of the year, and with demand for tickets far outpacing supply, fans are doing whatever they can to get their hands on tickets to the event. That, of course, means that many are turning to sites like Facebook in hopes of securing the elusive tickets so they can be a part of the festival themselves.

But obviously buying tickets on a resale site has its risks, and one influencer apparently found that out the hard way.

Macy Blackwell, an influencer with over 2 million followers on TikTok, recently took to social media to warn others about buying tickets to the festival after she was scammed out of $5,000 while trying to buy tickets from someone in a Facebook group.

Blackwell says she joined a group dedicated to resale tickets for Sand In My Boots festival, which she says has over 12,000 members on Facebook. She sends a message to the admin of the group asking for two tickets, and is told that the tickets she’s wanting would be $2,500 each.

Now, Blackwell admits this should have been a red flag, because the $2,500 is $100 less than face value for the tickets she’s buying. But apparently, that wasn’t enough to keep her from sending this random stranger on the internet $5,000 via Apple Pay.

But then two hours go by before Blackwell receives the tickets – which come from a Gmail account, and she says are clearly fake:

“The location of the festival’s wrong. There was typos in the ticket transfer email, so she must have spent the two hours typing up this big phony ticket thing.”

The scammer must have thought that Blackwell was an easy target though, because they then told her that she would have to pay ANOTHER $500 to pay for the fees. Luckily by this point the influencer realized she was being scammed and didn’t send the money, but soon after, the scammer (who Blackwell says was listed as an administrator of the Facebook group) deleted their account altogether.

Blackwell says she went to bed feeling “sick” about being scammed out of $5,000, but admits that the whole experience was her own fault for not being more careful before sending a random stranger on the internet that much money:

“None of this would have happened if I wasn’t done. Honestly it’s my fault for being stupid and naive and falling for the scam. I didn’t really want to share this because honestly it’s embarrassing how I fell for this, but at the same time since there is nothing I can do about it, and no way to do anything to these people, I can at least share it with you so you don’t fall for the same thing.”

Luckily I would never fall for a scam like that because I would never spend $5,000 on concert tickets to begin with, but if you’re looking to buy tickets from Facebook, it’s a good reminder to be careful and do whatever you can to verify before you actually send a stranger money.

But hey, $5,000 is a small price to pay to not have to go to the Sand In My Boots festival.

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