On Thursday’s front page we had a story of a Nash, Texas, woman indicted by a federal grand jury on wire fraud charges stemming from an alleged Internet scheme conducted with conspirators in Nigeria.

The suspects allegedly found items to buy on Craig’s List, a popular Internet classified ad site, and paid for the merchandise with bad checks written for more than the value of the items.

The suspects were allegedly reimbursed the overage by the sellers of the merchandise, leaving the suspects with cash on hand and the sellers with a big mess to clear up once the original ...