It will only cost you $10,000 to buy my winning lottery ticket worth $3.7 million. Or at least that is what a scam artist (and I must say that this was pure artistry) told a suburban man in Schaumburg. The victim was told that by the scam artist that he could not redeem the ticket himself because he is an illegal alien. The victim went to his Hoffman Estates bank and gave $10,000 to the scam artist. Shortly thereafter, the scam artist fled with the lottery ticket and the cash.
Police Sgt. Jim Campbell warned residents to be cautious of such deals, saying, "If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is." I don’t know what I am more surprised at: the fact that anyone would fall for such a story, or that someone who had $10,000 put away in the bank would so easily hand it over to a total stranger.
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