COASTAL SCAMMING: The first issue of Smart...

COASTAL SCAMMING: The first issue of Smart Money magazine writes this month about a Massachusetts man who has been the victim of one scam artist after another--and three of them came from Orange County. One rip-off involved a Yorba Linda firm selling oil wells, the other two investors from Newport Beach. . . . While Newport civic boosters call that city “the colorful coast,� the magazine quotes police naming it: “Cote de Fraud.�