The blood in the glass
• Psychics & Other Frauds
Signs for psychics, astrologers or tea-leaf readers appear on nearly every street. The problem is, many of the fortune- tellers are out-and-out charlatans, and the city has decided to act. Its fraud squad says fortune-tellers charge $500 (£300) a session, only to extort up to a thousand dollars more from their clients through a variety of well-established scams.