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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.
John Edward McGee Jr. (born October 19, 1969) is an American television personality, writer and self-proclaimed psychic medium. After writing his first book on the subject in 1998, Edward became a well-known (and controversial) figure in the United States with his shows broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel premiering in July 2000 along with broadcasting on We TV since May 2006.
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.
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.
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 ...
The scam quickly changed form, as sick and elderly people started receiving letters promising the psychic help of "Maria Duval" for $40 per mail consultation. The scam would quickly take gigantic proportions and generate some $200 million in revenues for the fraudsters running it. It appears only a very small portion of that money made its way ...
Peter George Popoff (born July 2, 1946) is a German-born American televangelist, charlatan, [1] debunked clairvoyant, and faith healer.He was exposed in 1986 by James Randi for using a concealed earpiece to receive radio messages from his wife, who gave him the names, addresses, and ailments of audience members during Popoff-led religious services.
Convicted of criminal fraud in United States v. Elizabeth A. Holmes, et al. for defrauding investors. [50] James Arthur Hogue (1959): U.S. impostor who most famously entered Princeton University by posing as a self-taught orphan [51] Brian Kim (1975/76): Hedge fund manager who pleaded guilty to a Ponzi scheme, passport fraud, and other crimes ...