I came across this in our local La Raza publication. We have numerous cons going on here lately. Bizarre. Odd writing style too....



2007, La Raza Chicago, Inc
Publicado el 09-21-2007

The Glitter of Ambition

The sale of a fake gold ingot dazzled a lady who, blinded by the thought of huge profits, handed over her family savings in exchange for what she found out later was copper.

Editorial staff La Raza

The victim was leaving the Lewis Produce Market on Grand Avenue in Waukegan. After doing her weekly shopping on Thursday, August 16 at two o'clock in the afternoon, a person who looked like a simple Mexican fieldworker, about 55 years old and carrying a briefcase, approached her and her daughter.


Once she finished putting the bags of groceries in her modest four-door compact car, she looked carefully at this stranger who claimed to have come from a distant town, according to the victim, who wishes to remain anonymous.


The stranger immediately got her attention with a story about how he was looking for a dentist in the vicinity of the Lewis Produce Market.


The story was that a white pickup truck had run over his uncle some weeks before. A briefcase with the card of a purported dentist, who well could have been responsible for the hit-and-run, had fallen from the vehicle, resulting in the amputation of both legs. His dying uncle was waiting for him at a farm in Grayslake, half an hour to the southwest.


After she had heard this sad story, somebody else, Mexican-looking but “seemingly educatedâ€