The Super Bowl is coming up and there are plenty of ads on Craigslist and Ebay for tickets to the biggest sporting event of the year. We always tell consumers about the red flags associated with buying tickets through an individual seller, but a BBB in Indiana actually sent over an e-mail that highlights exactly what we're talking about when when say BE CAUTIOUS...

"The tickets are still available. The price is $1600 for a pair or $3200 for all 4. My name is [redacted] and I am now in Liverpool, UK. I can send the tickets on Wednesday morning and you can receive them on Thursday morning at any address in the US. My company will pay for the delivery of the tickets. I work for Tropical Heat Holidays, in the United Kingdom. The tickets were bought by my company as a bonus we were going to give on a deal to a customer from the US. Unfortunatelly the deal did not go through and now we are stuck with the tickets. I know they are in demand over the big pond and I would hate to see the tickets go to waste, so now I am trying to find a buyer for them. Get back to me and let's work on the delivery and payment arrangements."

Here are the red flags:
1) The seller is overseas
2) There is a cheerful story associated with selling the tickets to get you in a false sense of security
3) There is no outline on how payment will be made, only a solicitation for you to respond

We're not saying this ad is 100% fraud or a scam, but it is an example of one that should be treated with extreme caution because the possibility exists for you to be out a significant amount of money if the deal is no good.