Looks like California is a hot spot for ticket scams.

It was supposed to be a World Series surprise from daughter to dad, an old "Philly kid" who still remembers the pain of throwing away tickets for a Yanks-Phils showdown that never came to be in '64. It turned into an Internet-age World Series scam, also ending in heartbreak. Instead of watching Dad recapture a lost childhood dream this week, Riva Litman asked the FBI, a bank, and other authorities to catch a thief. A Craigslist con man apparently took $3,200 from the family of Philadelphia expat Robert Litman - and never sent the four World Series tickets he had promised for Citizens Bank Park. Litman was stranded back home in northern California with unneeded plane tickets and a big-kid heart full of grown-man grief. -- Philadelphia Inquirer