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Fortune telling fraud
Fortune telling fraud, also called the bujo or egg curse scam, is a type of confidence trick, based on a claim of secret or occult information. The basic feature of the scam involves diagnosing the victim (the "mark") with some sort of secret problem that only the grifter can detect or diagnose, and then charging the mark for ineffectual treatments. The archetypical grifter working the scam is a fortune teller who announces that the mark is suffering from a curse that her magic can relieve, while threatening dire consequences if the curse is not lifted.〔Illinois State Police, (Common Citizen Scams ), accessed Nov. 17, 2010〕〔''People v. Bertsche'', 265 Ill. 272, 106 N.E. 823 (Ill. 1914)〕
==Method==
In this scam, a fortune teller uses her cold reading skill to detect that a client is genuinely troubled rather than merely seeking entertainment; or is a gambler complaining of bad luck. The fortune teller informs the mark that they are the victim of a curse, but that for a fee a spell can be cast to remove the curse. In Romany, this trick is called ''bujo'', originally meaning simply "bag", but now meaning "a swindle involving a large amount of money from a gullible fortune-telling customer."〔Anne Sutherland, in ''Gypsies, Tinkers, and Other Travellers'' (Academic Press, 1975)〕
This name comes from a traditional form: the mark is told that the curse is in their money; they bring money in a bag to have the spell cast over it, and leave with a bag of worthless paper;〔See, e.g., ''Marks v. State'', 144 Tex.Crim. 509, 164 S.W.2d 690 (Tex.Crim.App. 1942)〕 or money or property are given to the fortune teller to be destroyed as bearing the curse, and an item of lesser value is swapped and conspicuously destroyed instead.〔W. W. Zellner, William M. Kephart, ''Extraordinary groups: an examination of unconventional lifestyles'' (Macmillan, 2000; ISBN 1-57259-953-7), pp. (121-122 )〕 In some cases the curse is "verified" by a sleight of hand trick, often involving an egg, The grifter tells the mark to bring an egg to a reading,〔Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison, ''The Truth About Psychics: What's Real, What's Not, and How to Tell the Difference'' (Simon and Schuster, 2009; ISBN 1-4391-4972-0), pp. (230-321 )〕 which when cracked open reveals disgusting matter or symbols of evil. This discovery confirms the curse.〔Illinois State Police, above〕〔Skip Hollandsworth, "The Curse of Romeo and Juliet", Texas Monthly, (June 1997 )〕
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