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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEvery year I read about cases like this, "psychic" claims to remove curse from money.
Running off with the money, of course.
Woman loses $20K in psychic scam, believed money needed to be blessed
MILWAUKEE An area woman is out $20,000 after falling for an elaborate psychic reading scam.
The victim became convinced if she didn't pay up bad things would happen to her family.
VIDEO: Area woman victim of psychic reading scam
Police believe a drifter set up a scam inside a south side Milwaukee house for a few weeks this summer.
A criminal complaint detailed a woman's story, who set up a meeting at the house.
There are new tenants now, but the victim told police as tarot cards were arrayed on a table in July, the self-proclaimed psychic, 38-year-old Agueda Floris, told her she had an illness because "someone put a bad spell on her, and someone paid a lot of money to put this spell on her."
The victim was told to come back the next day with $400, 20 candles a tomato and a T-shirt.
Read more: http://www.wisn.com/news/woman-loses-20k-in-psychic-scam-believed-money-needed-to-be-blessed/28195744#ixzz3E67MPL6x
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Boy..some people know nothing about the Black Arts.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)Likely a gypsy/Rom fortune teller. Oh the memories. ...
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)isn't that a bit redundant?
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)DU, I am disappoint.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)As soon as I saw this thread, I predicted that it would contain your post, or one very like it.