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Was looking up the flyer pics for the lithuanian scam thread and came across these, so i figured i'd start a thread about them.All about 6-8 years old and i don;t think i've had any since then, have left the contact details on as clearly the originators of them didn;t object to their details going through the letterbox of a total stranger, and they are likely out of date now anyway.Mr Shark is a strangely prophetic name for a dodgy psychic... you would trust someone called Mr Shark how far! Some of the claims are quite odd too, Suema apparently can not just stop you from haring voices but also cure 'polo' and stop your family from marrying outside your culture(!)

Mr Bamba seemed to ring a bell !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 1073062.jp

There was a similiar advert in Metro last year.As the Fraudulent mediums Act of 1951 was quietly repealed by the last government ,these matters now come under trading Standards.Fake psychics can be prosecuted for offering services under false pretences!    

[quotenick="Steve Jones"]There was a similiar advert in Metro last year.As the Fraudulent mediums Act of 1951 was quietly repealed by the last government ,these matters now come under trading Standards.Fake psychics can be prosecuted for offering services under false pretences!    [/quoteused to laugh at the absolutely huge advert at York train station,above the main entrance to the concourse on the concourse side (must have bee 100 foot wide) that advertised the Psychic museum of York,please ring this number to book a visit.they couldnt be that good a set of psychics because if they were then they would have known you were coming anywayhttp://www.thepsychictimes.com/news/museum.htm ... Apparently they didnt see the last two links comingHahahahahahhah

Steve Jones wrote: There was a similiar advert in Metro last year.As the Fraudulent mediums Act of 1951 was quietly repealed by the last government ,these matters now come under trading Standards.Fake psychics can be prosecuted for offering services under false pretences!     The 1951 act replaced the Witchcraft Act of 1735.This I think was part of a post war reaction to the story ofHelen Duncan who was convicted under the Act during the war years.Churchill showed a great interest in the woman.Well worth Googling if you have an interest in such things.

If you look at the adverts for such evenings in the YEP, or in theatre "what's on" listings, they are now billed as "entertainment only".

ALL 'psychics' are frauds. Its a form of trickery perfected in victorian times and still practiced on gullible people. If they take money for it they are are also charlatans and criminals. Steve - there's no such thing, legally or actually, as a 'Fake psychic'. The term is a non-sequiter -they are all, by definition, fakes.

drapesy wrote: ALL 'psychics' are frauds. Its a form of trickery perfected in victorian times and still practiced on gullible people. If they take money for it they are are also charlatans and criminals. Steve - there's no such thing, legally or actually, as a 'Fake psychic'. The term is a non-sequiter -they are all, by definition, fakes. I just do not understand why people believe in such scams. It's like those who fall for such as the so called 'Nigerian' email scams where people believe they will be given a lot of money for helping somebody take out even more money from the emailer's country that they could not otherwise take out. Or that where they believe they have won a lottery that they never entered. I have sympathy for susceptible people but not those who should have known better.I have a sure fire cannot fail method of doubling your money which I shall only reveal on an agreed pre-payment. Oh what the heck as I'm feeling generous you can have it for free. Fold your paper money in half.