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• A 38-year-old Des Plaines woman was scammed out of $4,500 and her cell phone by a man and woman during a lottery ticket con around 2:15 p.m. Aug. 30 when the victim left a supermarket at 1802 S. Elmhurst Road, police said. According to reports, the female offender approached the victim and told her she had a winning lottery ticket but could not claim it because she was not legal in the United States. She told the victim there was a $12,000 claiming fee; the male offender walked up, told them he had overheard their conversation, and was willing to put up all but $4,500 of the fee, reports added. The victim agreed to give them the additional $4,500, and they drove her to a Chase Bank, 1190 S. Elmhurst Road, reports added. On the way, the victim tried to call her husband on her cell phone, but the offenders told her it was a secret transaction and took her cell phone, telling her she would get it back after the prize had been claimed, reports said. The two offenders took her money and cell phone, valued at $75, and drove away, reports added.

• A female caregiver may had taken money out of a dresser drawer between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Aug. 31 in a home on the 1800 block of Seminole Lane, police said. The 76-year-old male victim noticed the money missing after the woman left the house, reports added. Value was estimated at $2,450.