FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Halloween hack is coming to light as the organizers behind Fresno's Hauntmare Expo open Skream Valley in Sanger.

"It's frustrating when it's hard to pay the bills," organizer Luther Riddle said.

He and organizer Dino Garcia say the July expo drew thousands to the Fresno Fairgrounds, featuring vendors, celebrities, haunted houses and zombie laser tag.

The revenue from the tickets never showed up.

"Somebody had logged into our ticket provider, they changed the gateway of where the money was going and it was just siphoning off into somebody else's bank account," Riddle said.

The change to the deposit account occurred one week before the event, right when the organizers said the bulk of their tickets were sold.

"That's $60k right there," Garcia said. "Between

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