{"id":44766,"date":"2025-07-28T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=44766"},"modified":"2025-07-28T06:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:37:39","slug":"george-strait-fans-scammed-trying-to-buy-benefit-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/07\/george-strait-fans-scammed-trying-to-buy-benefit-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"George Strait Fans Scammed Trying To Buy Benefit Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Strait&#8217;s flood relief benefit concert took place on Sunday, July 27 in Boerne, Texas, and it got major support from folks all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>But sadly, it also got the attention of scammers.<\/p>\n<p>A local couple lost $10,000 when they bought fake tickets to the sold-out show.<\/p>\n<p>The scam looked real, right down to the graphics and wording from George&#8217;s official site.<\/p>\n<p>But after they wired money for four tickets, they realized it was a fraud. The scammer had altered just one letter in an email address.<\/p>\n<p>The couple says they&#8217;re less upset about their own loss and more heartbroken because the money meant for Texas flood victims was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>And the couple had some harsh words for the scammer, who has still not been caught.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think they should get life in prison.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMIhOzxsw-q\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas Couple Was Scammed Out of $10,000 Trying to Buy Tickets to George Strait&#8217;s Benefit Concert","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":26403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2829,4006,252,5984,134,6459],"class_list":["post-44766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-benefit-concert","tag-flooding","tag-george-strait","tag-scam","tag-texas","tag-texas-flooding"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 08:53:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/07\/george-strait-fans-scammed-trying-to-buy-benefit-tickets\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44767,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44766\/revisions\/44767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}