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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".
The Maria Duval scam is one of the most successful mail scams in history, having defrauded millions of people out of at least $200 million over twenty years. Targeting sick and elderly people through a combination of personalized letters and personal information databases, it has been shut down in the United States in 2016, but is still ongoing in many countries.
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.
Amy Bock (1859–1943): Tasmanian-born New Zealand con artist who committed numerous petty scams and frauds, and in 1909 impersonated a man in order to marry a wealthy woman. Cassie Chadwick (1857–1907): Canadian woman who defrauded banks out of millions by pretending to be the illegitimate daughter (and heir) of Andrew Carnegie [7]
A Massachusetts woman, who claimed to be a psychic, is accused of stealing more than $70,000 from a client after telling the woman that her daughter was possessed by a demon and needed the money ...
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.