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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.
And they would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for those darn meddling kids!
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."
"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.