Yet more scams: Someone from White Lake, Michigan has apparently scammed about $225,000 (and possibly as much as $400,000) from fraudulent E-bay auctions for collectible figurines - Hummels, Llados, etc. Amazingly, the guy did hundreds of legitimate auctions over the course of years to build up his reputation with buyers, then went for the big score.

Then, on Jan. 17, Mr. Richardson told the handful of employees at his figurine shop here in this blue-collar Detroit suburb that he was going out to lunch.

He hasn't been heard from since.

He only paused to clean out his checking account, according to his abandoned wife.

I just got an idea for a comic novel.