Gina Silva at FOX 11 Los Angeles opens her report with a line that sounds cheerful on the surface and sinister once you know what happened: “It’s your lucky day. You’re so lucky. You’re full of luck.”
Silva says the woman at the center of the story, Sarah (who asked FOX 11 not to use her last name), heard those words while she stood at a checkout counter at a Ralphs grocery store in Van Nuys.
It wasn’t luck. Silva frames it as a fast-moving distraction scam built around something small and harmless-looking: a $20 bill…