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Before choosing an advisor or psychic  – Please Educate Yourself

Psychic fraud is prevalent, please use caution when parting with your hard-earned money.

Anyone claiming to be 100% accurate or who guarantees results: Only God is 100% accurate, and as for guaranteed results: Try to get your money back and its GUARANTEED you won’t get it. Anyone making this claim should be avoided. Should you make the mistake of sending anyone money, save your receipts!! They are NOT going to give you back your money out of the kindness of their hearts, if there actually WAS kindness is their heart they wouldn’t have asked you to send them money in the first place! Remember, a con artist can only con you if they “appear” to be “sweet, compassionate, and caring”. That’s how con artists/ fake psychics can commit psychic fraud ~ they get you by making you BELIEVE they care about YOU. They care about your CASH ~ and what it can do for them. These phony psychics will resort to anything to get your money. Included but not limited to:

• They need $$$ to go to a church and make candle effigies (poppets) of you and your loved ones, in an effort to “rid” you/them of negativity, curses, or spells. If ANY psychic gives you a line even remotely close to this, run for the hills. They will encourage you to send them an enormous amount of $$$$$ by telling you that your wishes will be granted if only you did not have a curse, spell or negativity around you. If you send them money they can burn it for you, or they will bury your “dirty money” in sacred ground and all will be wonderful for you again. A big scam these fake psychics have used is to tell you that you have been cursed for 7 years (or however many years they ‘feel’ led to use) and for $1,000.00 for each YEAR you “pay the saints and angels to protect you, removing the curse so that you will be ok again….all for that for $7,000.00! What a deal!

• Many times a caller desperately wants to be re-united with their lost love, and their lost love has someone new in their life. The fake psychic will tell them “he loves YOU but SHE/HE put a curse/spell/black magic on them and you will NEVER get them back unless it is removed ~ and, sure enough, they can do it for you, for a fee of course.

• Do not give any psychic your phone number ~ nine times out of 10 these fake psychics will call you incessantly because they want you to believe you need this “work” done, and they feel they can pressure you into it ~ and they WILL call you at all hours of the day or night, harassing you until you finally give in and send them money. This is a classic example of psychic fraud. Never give any psychic your address either, because if this psychic is a fraud, it will make you feel very vulnerable knowing they have your address.

• Another slant on this psychic fraud occurs when the phony tells the caller who is having problems with a mate that things will get worse unless their aura is cleansed or they do some “love spells” to make everything “happy” again. No one can do this for you. Period. If they could, no movie star would ever get divorced, neither would anyone rich for that matter, as they can afford to have spells done DAILY. Furthermore, these ‘aura cleansers’ would be in extremely high demand by rich clientele, too much so to be dealing with YOU.

• Candle Burnings: Anyone asking you to hold on the while they do an “anointed candle burning” is just out to burn YOU, and you should tell them where they can stick their “anointed candle.”

Please, do not be fooled by fake phony psychics who tell you they will reunite you with a lost love in 24 hours, or who will “cleanse” you and remove curses or “negativity.” The only thing they will “REMOVE” is the money from your wallet. Do not fall for their scare tactics, this is all a scam. NEVER SEND ANY OF THEM MONEY BY MAIL OR WESTERN UNION. Do not send them ANY money PERIOD. This is THE classic psychic scam, and trying to get your money back is a lengthy process.

• The use of the words “World Renowned” and “World Famous” is obvious. If they are “World Renowned” or “World Famous,” you or someone you know will have heard of them. Also, when you see someone claiming to be an “ordained minister”, ascertain where they got “ordained” before you get too impressed…a lot of sites offer to make you an ordained minister or “spiritual counselor” for a fee or for free with no study required. Now, how spiritual is that? Click here to see a site that will ordain you in 3 minutes for free, no study required!

• Psychics using famous names. Anyone claiming to be Miss Cleo, Sylvia Brown or any other “famous” psychic is just using their names to encourage you to call. If a person is willing to steal someone else’s identity, they have NO problem stealing your money! Be really careful of psychics who say they have famous clients and actually give the names out….. readings are “supposed to be” confidential, aren’t they? Unless the celebrity has been interviewed endorsing “Madame X” is their advisor, giving them permission to use their name, this is fraudulent advertising and illegal. You may see autographed photos from celebrity clients on the phony psychic’s site or listing also, but anyone can download photos from EBAY, so don’t accept it as proof they really are clients of the “psychic”.

Featured Listings: featured listings are ads that readers pay for. It is paid advertising, nothing else. The only thing you needed to do to get on “featured listings” is PAY to be there, not do anything special what-so-ever. You are probably better off looking for “highest rated” since these are the people whose reputation had to be built, and have  had extensive experience with callers.

Psychics whoworked for the Miss Cleo/ PRN company shared information, so you would be surprised how many of them have already heard your story before because another fake psychic TOLD them. So many people fall for this it isn’t funny.

The psychic “friend”. This fake psychic has tons of feedback saying how *nice, sweet and charming they are*. Your not paying for NICE, your paying for a PSYCHIC. These *nice, sweet, caring* frauds are laughing all the way to the bank! They have FRIENDS they can call and not pay for it, if you want to talk to someone nice call your REAL friend that doesn’t CHARGE you, and ask you to CALL them day after day and update them on YOUR dime. A true “friend” will also be worried what all this “friendship” is COSTING you. The sad part is, many people believe their “psychic” is this great friend, but when the client runs out of money, the friendship runs out too! This can be devastating to a client that feels they were duped by a so-called “friend”. It especially hurts when the fake psychic scams them out of all this money for “friendship/psychic advice” and then when they have no money left, the fake psychic blocks them and tosses them aside like trash.

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