"Delmaro, 26, was charged with taking $713,975 from a marketing professional from Brooklyn after promising to reunite him with a woman he loved, even after the man discovered that the woman had died."


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doesn't mormonism claim you will be with your loved ones after you die ?

Ka-Ching!

I pass by a temple all the time that has a sign out front with a photo of an hispanic family and the words, "Will I be with my loved ones when I die?"

The implication is clear--only if you're Mormon.



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That's low even for TSCC!

Also in targeting Hispanics. They tend to not be as educated or as middle-class as their Anglo-Saxon counterparts.

And are more susceptible to superstition, make really good Mormons, and pay a full tithe religiously following conversion.

A lot of the fortunetellers are Rom aka Gypsy. I have spent a lot of time with Gypsies. Fortunetller is just an accpeted profession in their community--they know they don't have any supernatural powers they just become very good at cold reading people and manipulating people's emotions and needs.

Are you trying to say that Joseph Smith couldn't actually see hidden treasures like the Gold Plates in his seer stone?

Such an enlightening article!!! This is Joe Smith to a T!

Great article! A gullible friend of mine was scammed by a gypsy fortune teller to give her a valuable diamond engagement ring from a former marriage to "cleanse it of evil curses". Of course she never got it back. They should all be thrown in jail for preying on the desperate and gullible.

This is the NY Times version of the article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/29/nyregion/the-secret-to-the-psychic-trade-its-in-the-parole-board-transcripts.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

As I've posted before the Mormon church is actually worse because, in addition to the fake promises of material wealth, if you don't pay tithing you can't go to the temple or heaven!

Here some gems from an old First Presidency message from 1980:

"Tithing is not a free-will offering; it is a debt. . . . ", and "The Lord, to whom one owes tithing, is in a position of a preferred creditor. If there is not enough to pay all creditors, he should be paid first. You may be a little shocked by this statement, but it is true. Other creditors, however, need not worry, for the Lord always blesses the person who has faith enough to pay tithing so his or her ability to pay other creditors is not thereby reduced."

And of course the first presidency message emphasizes that if you don't pay you're going to burn! But tithing as "fire insurance" is pretty standard for tithing lessons.

If you want an interesting/"shocking" read I recommend reading the whole message!

https://www.lds.org/ensign/1980/06/concerning-tithing?lang=eng

What a creep old Marion Romney was. I remember my dad telling me how the early 80's had huge interest rates. My dad also had two jobs, we had one car, we had little to eat and wear but damnit we paid a full tithe. Yup these guys are as bad as the psychics.

Wow that's some scary and creepy stuff!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3215111/British-tourists-returning-Calais-blocked-French-motorway-fires-started-chainsaw-wielding-Roma-Gypsies.html

Chainsaw wielding gypsies block roads in France by lighting piles of tires and wood on fire in the street.

Such wonderful people.

Put a few GAs in prison for a while and see how long it takes them to admit Mormonism is a scam.

From the above link:

"(Ms. Vlado) convinced one woman to pay her $14,500 for a rock she said came from a meteorite that she had obtained from an NASA insider.”

If Vlado had told the customer she found it while digging a well, the latter would likely have been able to start a religion.

It is amasing that in 2015 there are still people retarded enough to waste their assets on "fortunetellers".

Our county fair had a fortunetellar booth for the first time this year. I didn't see anybody gullible enough going into or out of it... Just having it at the fair shows that there are gullible people here...I didn't make it to the carnival and the carnies.

So, if these "psychics" were able to scam people by telling them a lot of BS they wanted to hear, why couldn't they also be scamming the parole board? Hmmmmmm...

This is why such "crafty sciences" as crystal ball gazing were illegal in Joseph Smith's New York community. Joseph Smith was charged with being a disorderly person for claiming that he could find hidden treasures or lost items by looking into his seer stone in 1826.

The more plausible explanation is that Joseph Smith would steel people's property then hide it. Joseph would then approach the person and claim he can find it again for a fee. This is really a form of extortion and theft.

John Edward should be among those who will eventually be facing a parole board, begging for his freedom. He mixes religion and made-up 'readings' to dupe people out of their money.

I see on his website that he'll be in Boise tonight, and in SLC on Sept. 3, putting on shows for those who 'just believe' in his nonsense.

He should be arrested at one of his appearances for consumer fraud...