How a psychic bilked $250M with a simple mail scam
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2018 7:07 am
New York Post - 8/25/2018 - Susannah Cahalan - In a world with threats of criminal hacks like “voice-spoofing technology,” where thieves can steal our voices and use them against us, simple mail fraud seems like a relic from a less sophisticated era.
Yet one of the world’s most effective and longest running cons in United States history — a scam that defrauded over $250 million from its victims — was mere junk mail. The “Maria Duval letters” started hitting mailboxes in the 1980s and continued to take advantage of the sickest and most desperate among us until the government shut down the international operation two years ago. Read more @ https://nypost.com/2018/08/25/how-a-psy ... -scam/amp/
Yet one of the world’s most effective and longest running cons in United States history — a scam that defrauded over $250 million from its victims — was mere junk mail. The “Maria Duval letters” started hitting mailboxes in the 1980s and continued to take advantage of the sickest and most desperate among us until the government shut down the international operation two years ago. Read more @ https://nypost.com/2018/08/25/how-a-psy ... -scam/amp/