East Bay Times
The East Bay Times is a daily newspaper in Walnut Creek, California that serves Contra Costa and Alameda County in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay area.
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Here’s a little public service announcement: If someone tells you they just won the lottery but needs your help collecting the money, don’t hand them $20,000 in cash for nothing more than a promise that they’ll return. Police in Newark have opened an investigation because a local woman learned that lesson the hard way. It all started on the afternoon of Feb. 28, when she was approached by a group of people in a vehicle who told her they just won $1 million through the lottery but there was a...