Monday, June 12, 2006

Gypsy Psychic Scams

Pretending to be caring, compassionate, and often Christian, your run-of-the-mill fortune teller, spiritual advisor, psychic, or whatever they want to call themselves, only want one thing: to relieve you of your money.

Many people who get sucked into the psychic lairs do it just for fun. After all, an initial reading is only ten bucks. But, before they know it, they give the fortune teller $100, and then thousands.

Never give them a penny. Even a "fun" $10 reading supports a criminal enterprise.

Fortune tellers are adept at gathering information from you in a casual conversation. Then they turn it around and give it back to you in a way that you think that they somehow came up with it in the first place. Sometimes they just read between the lines of what you tell them.

They also intimately know human nature, and the weaknesses, fears, and troubles we all share. When a person hears something from a pyschic that strikes a cord in them, and they think that the pyschic must indeed be gifted, they're ready to go down the slippery slope.

At Sherlock Investigations, we've had clients who have given fortune tellers $50,000 in a year's time, and even $150,000 in a year-and-a-half. Now, these are educated, intelligent people. However, the pyschic found something in them, a weakness, maybe a need or want to believe.

Victims come to us ashamed, humiliated, and desperate. In most cases, the money is never returned, and the fortune teller escapes. Only when less than 24 hours have passed have we been able to get a victim's money back.

We've had other cases where our clients said a pyschic told them who committed certain crimes. The other day, a man called to say that he knew who murdered someone in a case where a large reward was offered. As we sometimes act as a go-between in cases where someone is afraid to come forward with knowledge of a crime, we were very interested....until he told us that he was himself a psychic, and he learned the name of the murderer through his special powers. Well, we couldn't jeopardize our credibility with the FBI with information like this, so we let it drop.

To learn more about gypsy psychic scams, go to www.gypsypsychicscams.com. This is an excellent site that offers help to victims, and exposes psychics all over the country.

Finally, a well-known New York magazine is working on a story about psychic rip-offs. If you're in New York City, and have had a bad experience with a fortune teller or psychic, and want to talk about it, please contact Sherlock Investigations.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I AM A GYPSY MAN AND I AM A PSYCHIC I DONT SEE HOW YOU ALL CAN SAY GYPSYS ARE BAD WHY DO YOU ALL NOT LIKE US .

Anonymous said...

gypsy psychic took $700'000 from
someone i got this story from other gypsys she cashed two checks somewhere in wash dc. /she is located in ny. 2nd st. between aves.a & bnames used cris marks chrystal marks husband r mitchell

Anonymous said...

first of all gyspies arent bad some r bad but others are no better then us there r whores and sluts
and other horrible things out there
worse than the gypiese and this little site that has it on here is just making money to tell peoople lies and yes i am a phychic ans none of this is true
but oter enthic grougs are just as bad

Anonymous said...

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Rubchaduck Brey....

Khaul Chidi Day Mhogo Khad!!

Anonymous said...

Here is a Gypsy scammer for you!!

Rudy Johnson Out Of The Alabama Red's.....

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Anonymous said...

I BEG TO DIFFER. IN THE PAST YEAR I HAVE MET DOZENS OF GYPSIES AND ALL OF THEM ARE SCAM ARTISTS THEIVES, LIARS AND PRETTY MUCH THE SCUM OF THE EARTH. THE NOT ONLY RIP OFF PEOPLE WITH SCAMS THEY DON'T PAY RENT AND WAIT TO GET EVICTED CAUSE IN THE LOVELY CITY OF NY IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO EVICT A TENANT. MY TERMINALLY ILL FATHER IN LAW DIED WHILE TRYING TO GET THEM OUT OF HIS HOME. THEY KNEW THAT AND THEY DIDN'T CARE. INSTEAD OF DOING THE DECENT THING AND LEAVE AFTER NOT PAYING RENT FOR MONTHS AND LET HIM DIE IN PEACE THEY STAYED AND MILKED IT. SO WHILE HIS FAMILY SHOULD'VE BEEN SPENDING HIS LAST MOMENTS WITH HIM, THEY SPENT IT TRYING TO GET THEM OUT. HOW THEY RAISE KIDS IS EVEN BETTER. THEY HAVE AN ELDER GO OUT WITH THE YOUNG KID SO THEY CAN LEARN TO SCAM PEOPLE OUT OF MONEY. I'M EATING MY PIZZA WHEN IN WALKS A GYPSY WITH A YOUNG GIRL HOLDING HIS ARM LIKE HE'S BLIND. HE'S HOLDING A WALKING STICK FOR THE BLIND AND EVEN WEARING GLASSES. WHEN HE ASKS ME FOR MONEY THE LIGHT HITS HIS GLASSES SO I CAN ACTUALLY SEE THROUGH THEM AND I SEE HIM LOOKING AT ME STRAIGHT IN THE EYE!! NOW THAT'S BALLSY.

Anonymous said...

IM A GYPSY AND YOU NO WHATS A REAL SCAME SELLING DRUGS TO 15 AND 16 YEARS OLD KIDS AND SELLING THEM HAND GUNS SO GO GET SOME DRUG DEALERS OF THE STREETS AND GET THE GUYS THAT SELL KIDS HAND GUNS TO KILL THEM SELFS AND GET THE COROPT COPS TO HAY WHER NOT SAYING THAT WHER HONEST BUT WHO IS THIS DAY IN AGE

Anonymous said...

I had a gypsy "befriend" me yaers ago. I gave her a little money yes but didnt fall for the bigger money scams. Anyway i truely believed we were friends until she stole my ss# (never leave a wallet within a gypsies reach...some "friend") and left without a trace 10 yrs ago> i just got my credit back on track and hope to run into my old "friend" someday. She did a good job of making me beleive she cared! Id like to tell her what i think

Anonymous said...

YOU MAY NOT BEILEVE IN GYPSY PSYCHICS BUT PLEASE BEILEVE THIS YOU WILL ONE DAY HERE UGLY THINGS IN YOUR EAR ABOUT THE DEATH IN YOUR FAMILY YOU SHALL ALWAYS HERE TRAGEDY IN FAMILYS NAMES THAT YOU WILL NOT DIE BUT RATHER SEE CHILDREN AND CHILDREN DIE AND YOU WILL SUFFER THE REST OF YOUR LIFE IN PAIN AND IN SORROW SO THAT THERE WILL BE A TEAR ON YOUR FACE ETERNALY CRYING AND WEEPING THAT YOU WILL BE ALIVE BUT LIKE A DEAD PERSON IS NOT MOVING TALKING EATING OR DRINKING THAT YOU WILL ONLY FEEL PAIN IN YOUR BODY THAT YOUR BODY WILL BEND THAT YOUR FACE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE YOUR BACK THAT YOU WILL HAVE STROKE IN TO STROKE BY PASS SURGERYS AND WILL SEE IF YOU WILL ATEND A GYPSY PSYCHIC THEN TO GET RID OF THIS CURSE YOU WILL SPEND YOUR MONEY TO A PSYCHIC ONCE YOU START FEELING THIS YES I AM A PSYCHIC AND SINCE MANY GENERATION MY FAMILY HAS BEEN AND WE TAKE AS MUCH MONEY WE COULD WE SCAM IGNORENT GADJE LIKE YOU BECAUSE THOSE WHO FEEL THEM SELF SMART ARE IN FACT VERY IGNORENT SO YES WE DONT GO TO SCHOOL YOU GADJE DO BUT YOU ARE NOT SMART OF ENUGHF TO BE TOOKEN ADVANTAGE OF RIGHT SO TAKE YOUR SELF A A DEEP BREATH AND THINKS ABOUT THIS