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Two women were arrested on Tuesday after being accused of committing "fortune telling fraud" in Times Square. A psychic and her daughter-in-law told an undercover operative working for a private ...

A Manhattan psychic busted in a $40 million scam preyed on naive tourists who were all too eager to pony up cash for glimpses of the future, neighbors said Wednesday. Accused swindler Nancy Marks, a ...

MINDEN, Nev., July 25 (UPI) --A Nevada psychic may have to get her crystal ball cleaned... Helen Welch of Minden was arrested on a charge of attempting to obtain money under false pretenses after an ...

Some psychics who the feds say are swindlers running a fortune-telling biz near The Plaza hotel didn’t see this one coming. The feds, who dubbed their investigation Operation Crystal Ball, say the ...

She should’ve seen it coming. A Westchester County “psychic” has just been busted for the third time in fewer than two years — this time for allegedly bilking a woman out of her life savings by ...

The long arm of the law has a short reach when it comes to a notorious Manhattan psychic. Clairvoyant scammer Sylvia Mitchell, 38, who has run her con game in NYC, Connecticut and Florida, was busted ...

Pyschic's lawyer says private eye has to prove his client is not psychic A judge ruled private eye could not slander or defame psychic, but took out "disparage" from ruling A psychic busted twice in ...

-- A Jersey Shore psychic who offered him treatments to cleanse his soul of evil spirits has been charged with scamming an elderly man out of more than $147,700, police say. The Smithville psychic's ...