Fake psychic faces up to 280 years in prison for defrauding elderly Americans in $175M scheme

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Fake psychic faces up to 280 years in prison for defrauding elderly Americans in $175M scheme
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One correspondence from 2014 promised the receipt’s life “was going to take a turn for the better” but to find out more, they must pay $37.50.

A Canadian man behind a fake psychic scheme that defrauded millions of Americans will be seeing prison bars in his future.

One correspondence from 2014 promised the recipient’s life “was going to take a turn for the better” but to find out more, they must pay $37.50,Another read: “All you have to do to see your life change is grasp the hand of friendship we are holding out to you,” — but that friendship started at $50, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the newspaper.

Those who fell for the empty promises and handed over money were often the elderly with dementia or people financially struggling. Maria Duval is a real person, but was not involved in the mail fraud scheme, according to investigators.Runner acted as the ring leader for the entirety of the scheme’s 20-year history and advised those who ran the day-to-day operations. He used dozens of shell companies to try to cover his tracks and lived all over the world — including Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, and Spain — to hide his involvement.

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