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Gina Marie Marks (born January 25, 1973) is an American psychic and convicted fraudster.Using the pseudonym of Regina Milbourne, [1] she co-authored Miami Psychic: Confessions of a Confidante, a memoir published by HarperCollins in 2006.
Falling for a psychic scam can result in a loss of one's entire life savings. In an example given in an article by Rob Palmer [47] a woman gave a psychic $41,642 over a period of 10 weeks. The woman had contacted Palmer for help, who put her in contact with Bob Nygaard, a private investigator who specializes in psychic fraud cases. Palmer had ...
Bob Nygaard is an American private investigator (PI) specializing in the investigation of confidence crimes, most notably psychic fraud.He has been instrumental in the arrest and conviction of numerous psychics, helping their victims obtain justice including financial restitution amounting to millions of dollars.
Dubious psychics are nothing new, but around the time the Psychic Friends Network went bankrupt, telephone-based psychics began peddling their services on the Web. And thanks to the rise of social ...
The Department of Justice said a Canadian man has been given a 10-year prison sentence after a court found that he defrauded 1.3 million Americans by operating a psychic mass-mailing fraud scheme.
Fortune telling fraud, also called the bujo or egg curse scam, is a type of confidence trick, based on a claim of secret or occult information. The basic feature of the scam involves diagnosing the victim (the "mark") with some sort of secret problem that only the grifter can detect or diagnose, and then charging the mark for ineffectual ...
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
Image credits: bumbledorien Perhaps one of the most audacious scams ever pulled was the so-called “sale” of the Eiffel Tower. In 1925, Austro-Hungarian con artist Victor Lustig capitalized on ...