Festival Marketed to Rich Millennials Turns out to Be a Horrifying Scam for Millions of Dollars

Listen To Your Gut

An anonymous person wrote in about their experience at the airport in Miami… It wasn’t good: “The airline didn’t scan our boarding passes or anything. They just collected our boarding passes and did a count, which was the first time I’ve flown anywhere recently where they didn’t scan. We were on the plane and decided to get off because we kept getting texts and phone calls from our friends on the island and they’re like, don’t come, don’t come. We had other friends who were like, okay we see tents, but it’s super disorganized. We were getting texts and in the pictures, [the Fyre organizers] were still fencing up around the water [on the beach]. Every single picture that they advertised felt like one of those schemes. We’ve been to the Bahamas before, we know what it looks like, and this was totally different.”

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.