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(Salt Lake City-AP) -- The FBI is looking for a Salt Lake man who collected thousands of dollars for tickets to the Fiesta Bowl, but never delivered the tickets.
The nonexistent tickets were sold on Internet auction site eBay.
When fans gathered at a restaurant in Tempe, Arizona near the stadium before the game -- they realized they'd been scammed.
The story was reported in The Salt Lake Tribune. One fan told the paper he lost more than a thousand dollars on the ticket rip-off, and then spent another 800 dollars on tickets from a scalper. He said the exciting, double-overtime finish to the game took some of the sting out of the financial loss.
F-B-I agent Kevin Eaton says they're working with a variety of other law enforcement agencies to track down the swindler.
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