California psychic promised to ‘bless’ money, ran off with $100K: cops

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Tamar Lapin | New York Post




A California woman posed as a psychic and duped clients out of $100,000 by promising she could double their money with a blessing, police said.

The alleged scam landed Perlita Afancio-Balles, 29, on the Sacramento Police Department’s “most-wanted list” Tuesday.

Victims said Afancio-Balles — who went by the name Eva Maria — told them to leave their money with her, with the promise she’d return the “blessed” cash and that it would increase twofold, the Sacramento Bee reported.

By the time they returned to the con-artist’s home September 22, she’d run off with their money, cops said.

Afancio-Balles is wanted for grand theft and theft by false pretenses.

[lost in melb.]

If her victims are that stupid...good luck to her

[Teh One Who Knocks]

If her victims are that stupid...good luck to her

I'm always on the fence about these things. On one hand, you don't like to see people get scammed out of their money. But on the other hand, if you fall for any of these scams, whether it's psychics or the Nigerian prince e-mails or the phone calls claiming that you owe back taxes and the FBI is on their way to arrest you unless you send the caller $1,000 in iTunes gift cards, then I lean towards the fact that you deserve what you get.

There are SO MANY stories about these kinds of scams out there and so many PSA's telling people not to fall for them, but yet they still do. Of course it's the 21st century and there are still people who believe in psychics, so....