According to police, several people have reported they had contacted the woman after seeing her ads as a "card reader" in Chicago-area Hispanic newspapers. Those people told police they had given the woman — who advertised as a tarot card reader — money which she would then offer to spiritually cleanse. The scam seems to have operated between July 22 to Aug. 22 at a location in the 900 block of North LaFox Street (Route 31) in South Elgin, according to police.