Psychic Reading: is it a Scam?

Copyright (c) 2008 Steven Magill

Everyday in your life you come across fraudsters who would grab your hard earned money. You must protect yourself against such con artists who assure you with a true psychic reading and in return give you no real information in the end.

- The best method is to listen to your intuition, or the inner 'gut' feeling. If you go for a psychic reading and you don't feel right, leave immediately.

- Let everyone in the Universe know that you are after the truth; this in itself will help you to reach a well known psychic reader.

- During a psychic reading, never reveal any personal details; con artists may use it to gather information about you and flesh out a reading.

While listening to your psychic reading you may get a strange, sinking feeling in your stomach hinting that something is wrong with the reading. This is a signal that the reading isn't authentic and you are merely wasting your time.

A few online or phone psychic reading firms will offer you the initial few minutes of your reading free. This will give you adequate time to distinguish if the reading is correct or not. Even a real psychic may get some points incorrect and you will never come across anyone who is 100% accurate in all the readings. They are after all humans, and not perfect receptors. If you find the reading is inaccurate you need to conclude it and try it some other time.

Some of the tips to spot the scams that are used by con artists:

1. A good amount of time in the psychic reading will be wasted by the psychic reader talking about unimportant things that cannot be proved. Like, s/he may talk about your guardian angels. If this is short then do not worry, but if s/he goes on and on about this topic then there is something fishy.

2. The Psychic may tell you about yourself, your future, or your life but if it doesn't sound correct or does not make sense to you, then make use of your common sense while listening to the suggestions of the psychic reader.

3. The Psychic reader may describe your future in the most common terms. Like, you are a bachelor s/he may tell you that you will soon bump into a nice girl, but s/he will not tell you how she looks but only give you a hazy description about her. In such case you are probably not facing of a real Psychic.

4. In a case where the Psychic makes predictions about your life and most of it is wrong. Then do not listen any further. In such a situation do not act on his advice.

5. Real Psychics do not work for money; many of them even do not charge a fee, instead they may ask for donations. Most of the famous Psychics ask a huge fee, but then they are sought after that much more than a small town Psychic. The huge fees being charged by such Psychics is not justified.