Des Plaines woman loses $5,800 in scam

An 81-year-old Des Plaines woman was tricked out of $5,800 when she received a phone call from a man claiming to represent her bank, police said. He told her that money was illegally being taken out of her bank account and that the only way to catch the person was to open a “dummy” account in her name and to track the money taken out of that account. He told her to take cash out of her bank account and to give it to his associate who would be waiting in the parking lot by the Des Plaines Public Library. She met someone called “Woods” in the library lot on Aug. 9, gave him the money and he left.