Licensed fortune telling
Archive: Psychics & Other Frauds
Those who take money to tell the future are about to get hit with the same sort of stringent regulation as masseurs, taxi drivers and car mechanics.
Fortune tellers, psychics, mediums, spiritualists, tarot readers and the like would have to register with the police and pay a regular licensing fee under a new law proposed by Supervisor Aaron Peskin.
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Fraud investigators say they handle scores of complaints from vulnerable people who have given huge sums to dubious characters - and they believe there are many more victims afraid to come forward
Richard Evans Lee • December 24, 2002 • Reader, what do you think?
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Richard