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Super Bowl ticket scam costs woman $2,000

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- An Indianapolis woman says she was scammed out of $2,000 when she tried to buy four Super Bowl tickets through Craigslist.

Tracy Copeland, 51, told police she answered two ads for tickets Wednesday, paying one seller $500 for two tickets and another seller $1,500 for two tickets, The Indianapolis Star reported.

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She said the first two tickets were supposed to be delivered overnight by FedEx, an Indianapolis police report said. But the service told her it had no deliveries for her.

The other seller told the scam victim her tickets were at the post office but the U.S. Postal Service said no packages were there for her, police said.

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