State police at Indiana are investigating an incident of theft by deception after an elderly woman from White lost money she thought she was sending to insure a large cash prize. Eleanor Blair, 93, told police someone called her and told her she won $350,000 in a sweepstakes, but she needed to wire $2,800 to cover insurance costs. Blair wired the money in May, but did not receive her prize.

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