The frustration of a bank dispute gone wrong. Fraud Happens: What I Learned About Banks, Scams, and Protecting Your Money Fraud doesn’t always look like fraud at first. In my case, it looked like a legitimate “overstock” listing for a chicken hutch — what many people now call a “ghost listing scam,” where a fake business advertises inventory and sometimes even provides an address that turns out not to exist. It didn’t take long to realize what had happened: it was a scam. Checking Waze isn't enough when a scammer knows how to lead you into a ghost location. Six months later, a friend experienced the "upgraded" version of this nightmare. He actually spoke to a real person who knew the area and provided an address that Waze recognized. He felt he had done his due diligence. But he arrived in the middle of a literal empty desert, with his granddaughter in the back seat and only a quarter tank of gas left . The "office" didn't...