They told a Fremont woman they’d just won the lottery and needed her help. A few minutes later she was $20,000 poorer

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...