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How Romanian Fortune Tellers Used Google To Fleece Victims
Hentes writes "The internet has made many things easier, but unfortunately this also includes crime: it seems that nowadays not even people wanting to know their future are safe from fraud. Two fortune tellers are being investigated, after the Romanian police uncovered that they have utilized some extraordinary help in their clairvoyant acts. The pair used information collected from internet search and social networks to gain the trust of their customers, claiming that they could see their personal data through their crystal ball. In some cases, they also used high-tech surveillance techniques such as hidden cameras and phone tapping. But they didn't stop at merely spying on their victims: their most bizarre case involved a scuba diver dressed as a monster." Nice to know that internet-based fraud isn't limited to motivational speakers with real-estate seminars and other get-rich-quick flim-flam.
You should always attribute your quotations. That's Steve Jobs, right?
And they would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for those darn meddling kids!
Olga sits at her desk with her clients holding hand in a circle around her Ipad ...the candle flickers....One of the clients desperately wants to speak to Steve about why suddenly his Mac Book Pro is vulnerable to the "curse of the Open Windows"
Olga says she senses an evil presence in the room and that Steve is telling her that there is something very wrong with her clients Mac Book Pro and that it will only be free from evil when he removes boot camp and returns to the pure essence of Apple!
Olga takes her 200 dollar malware removal fee, 20% of which is paid to Symantec for setting her up in business.
I see many scenes like this happening to Mac users in the future.
... because the fortune teller trade has always before been a bastion of honesty and integrity, and has never been the butt of scurrilous rumors of fraud.
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Ridiculous.
I mean, you don't get a tax exemption for always putting your left shoe on first, do you?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
"It is immoral to let a sucker keep his money". Apparently, the Romanian scammer fortune-tellers agree.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
"Well ... suckers are _still_ falling into the Nigerian money transfer scam, don't they?"
Not to mention talking snakes, virgin mothers and bearded men in the sky.