Nancy Marks also persuaded gullible clients to hand over their credit card numbers because she wanted to check there were not too many sixes on them. The 54-year-old used the information to go on wild spending sprees at top fashion stores.
Police in Colorado believe she has able to get more than £250,000 out of people who came to use her psychic services. One woman handed over more than £180,000 after being told money was evil and that it contained bad energy.
Full article at Mail Online
Thats genius! wrong, but genius! i am surprised it hasnt happened before!
Well, if yer daft enough to hand the details over, ye deserve tae be robbed blind by Momma Moomintroll.
Just goes to show that belief without question overrides all kind of common sense. You know not only “psycics” do this. Television entertainers do too… some like you are honest about it (and hopefully gives the money back).
More fool them, really. Just shows that people will believe what they want to believe.
They “came to use her psychic services”, after all.
Wow, really?
That isnt right… using people like that.
But then again, people are getting more and more gullible these days.
However i’m glad she got caught!
‘She preyed on my faith in God and my generosity and trusting nature,’ Mr Temple said.
What does generosity have to do with it? Surely being told that money is evil, then handing over your money to someone else isn’t generosity? It’s actually a bit selfish!
Morons. They should be locked up WITH that woman, keep them out of the general pool for their own safety!
I’m not surprised… I think this happen really often, the problem is that the people believe in them and do not report or denounce this facts!
Sometimes I think that instead of fatiguing to obtain my goals, I could simply joke on the good faith of people and become rich using their problem…
I consider myself to be occasionally intelligent. I am hard-working and passionate about my work. How the hell you can earn a spare 180,000 dollars and still be as thick as faecal slurry is beyond me. Some of her victims quite obviously had more money than they would ever need. This is why America needs universal healthcare paid for by a tax on the rich.
It stinks.
People are starving while muppets spend millions on fripperies.
It is not just ‘the way of the world’ – it is the way WE have made the world.
*Deep breath*
sorry, light hearted and relevant, yes, yes, I remember.
She was like a tax on gullibility. Maybe we should tax churches, to paraphase DVB.
All I can say is that fools and their money are soon parted. Thankfully another charlatan has been identified though, I fear 10 more by the end of today will start practicing
Well this just shows the complete lack of common sense in the world.
This is bad, but somehow someone telling you how to live your life, spend your money, and even think or you will burn in hell is ok. What a strange world. At least its not borring.
this article has a better headline…hehe!
http://cbs4denver.com/crime/Psychic.Fraud.Arrest.2.1690997.html
True, it looks like the people who fell for it were just idiots who couldn’t have hung on to their money if someone had glued it to them, but really, we’re all pretty stupid. Ever done something that you thought was a really good idea at the time, and later thought, “What the hell was I thinking?!” ?
What I’m really astonished at is this bogus psychic woman. I mean, I’ve heard of people doing things like this when they’re tens of thousands of pounds in debt; but it takes a special kind of bitch to set out to rob trusting people blind just so that you can have designer labels.
Its amazing nobody suspected anything all the time she was doing it.. and she knew she was going to get caught sometime.. she must have.
I hope this gets some attention. It’s about time people realised how dangerous believing in charlatanism can be.
On a related note, I hope people will make the connection (though I doubt they will) between the dangers of implicitly trusting psychic powers without question and implicitly trusting religious doctrine without question.
Blimey, gullible indeed.
@JayKay,….. ‘Momma Moomintroll’ LOL
LC x
People are idiots
The church has beng doing something similar for far longer, just goes to show a little and often is the healthiest way to scam. ^_*
I’m sorry, but if you hand over 180,000 because you’ve been told it’s evil, then you deserve to be conned. Idiots!
So EASY
“because she wanted to check there were not too many sixes on them. ” Anyone thats soo retarded they can’t count how many 6′s are on their credit card number and hand it out to a stranger doesn’t deserve to have a credit card in the first place. Not that the credit card companys particuarly care as long as someone pays the bill in the end.
Honestly, people? Mentally vulnerable people deserve to be conned and basically robbed of their money? I think you’re taking the whole cynicism thing a bit too far here…
How about protecting those who can’t protect themselves? You know, the idea we invented laws and such for?
I’m sorry, but this victim blaming makes me really unhappy.
Im sorry but anyone who falls this deserves to get robbed !
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