Joe
Austin,#2Consumer Comment
Sun, January 18, 2009
IF YOU FOR ONE MOMENT BELIEVE THAT THESE FRAUD AND CON ARTISTS WHO RIP OFF SO MANY PEOPLE WOULD POST HONEST REVIEWS OF THE SLUGS, RIP OFFS AND CON ARTISTS WHO WORK FOR THEM, MAYBE YOU WOULD LIKE TO BUY A BRIDGE AND OCEAN FRONT PROPERTY IN NEW MEXICO ...BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL YOU WILL GET ANYTHING HONEST FROM THEM -- I HAVE HEARD THAT THEY EVEN PAD THE PHONE BILLS AND ALL OTHER CHARGES ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR NASTY LITTLE CON GAME. THEY LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE SO YOU THINK THEY WON'T LIKE ABOUT THE REVIEWS THAT THEIR TRAILER HOUSE LOSERS GET? AVOID THESE SCAMSTERS OR THEY WILL DESTROY YOUR LIFE!
Elsa
Kngston,#3Author of original report
Sun, January 18, 2009
You are absolutely right about these hotlines. Makes me think of the movie Boiler Room. Its disgusting. Liveperson is a chat thing so you dont actually speak to the psychic, its all online. I had no idea about ROR when I started, I stumbled on it quite recently. What makes LP seem legit are the reviews - they are very real if you have ever read them clients are the ones who rate & review & some are very credible..so you would think. Thats what sucked me in. The reviews. I didnt go for the spells/magic thing I dont believe that. Also I kept my sessions short, so there was some method to the madness!lol They also dont ask you questions, this is the new & more evolved sort of hotline, cleverly masked with a false sense of trust & credibility. I would never call the phone ones you see advertised in the women's magazines. Notice they are only in women's mags & not mens mags like Sports Illustrated, GQ etc. Its obvious they target women. Their market is women, although some men go there too.. Its just sick I've read some reviews where there are people asking about their deceased father or mother & how can they lie to people who are suffering like that? Yes I guess if there are serial killers & dark hearted folks in the world, then am not surprised that scammers can lie & con their way through life. It must stop, goodness must prevail!!
Jackie
New York,#4Consumer Comment
Sun, January 18, 2009
I am happy to read your intelligent comments and you are smart to stop using liveperson/kasamba. Your advice is spot on and I hope others take it to heart and once and for all stop wasting their money and energy on psychic readings. Live in the now!
Joe
Austin,#5Consumer Comment
Sat, January 17, 2009
This is great advice but I want to know WHY you would waste your money in the first place when the horror stories of these ALLEGED PSYCHICS WHO CHARGE BY THE BILLABLE MINUTE FOR SOME OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE,OVERPRICED TELEPHONE CONVERSATION are ALL to be found in the RIP OFF REPORT by other people who have been VICTIMIZED by them???????????? You don't KNOW that theses people are PSYCHICS! All you know for sure is that you are going to be CHARGED A LOT OF MONEY and THE LONGER THE ALLEGED PSYCHIC CAN KEEP YOU O THE LINE TALKING ABOUT YOU, YOUR FAVORITE SUBJECT when NOBODY ELSE SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT YOU is rather intoxicating. Especially when they flatter you and have hours to listen to you --all the while billing you by the minute... This includes the classified ads in the Tabloids that have the 1-800 and the other toll free numbers that purport to offer FREE QUESTIONS from PSYCHIC, INDIAN, EGYPTIAN READERS and they have someone's name there which might be similar to some celebrity's name and will keep changing when authorities receive enough complaints. They just change the name and the toll free number and keep on LYING to people and conning money from them. BECAUSE THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT HOW THEY CAN GET MONEY OUT OF YOU! Magic spells for the most part are NOT WHAT PSYCHICS AND THE PEOPLE ON THE 1-800 NUMBERS or 1-900 ( CHARGE YOU RIGHT THERE) or the 1-866 or other toll-free numbers are capable of doing no matter what they promise you. THESE PEOPLE LIE TO YOU AND WILL TELL YOU ANYTHING JUST TO GET YOUR MONEY. HOW THE BASIC HOTLINE SCAM WORKS THE TELEPHONE PSYCHIC SCAM WORKS LIKE THIS, BASICALLY WITH SOME VARIATIONS : The people who SEEM to fall for this are basically women and young persons are curious about the occult, believe in magic ( and the fairy tell happy ending) feel powerless and want to gain some control over an uncertain and sometimes scary future, are LONELY with no friends to talk to,naive, curiosity,and they are looking for excitement in their life, something different from a dull routine basically... What happens is there is a broiler room or the calls to the "psychic hotlines" are routed to the phones of the independent contractors who take those calls from their trailer park homes, apartments, wherever they happen to be. Their training consists of a script which is the SAME for the people who call them only differing in the age and gender of the customers who call. Basically the topics are limited to financial questions and questions about true love so there are emphasis on those two topics. I read about people complaining that all of the advice is the same or they might have requested that a friend call and they find that the advice is the same for every caller. WELCOME TO THE BASIC SCAM. These questions are all designed to get the person talking about themselves, their hopes, their dreams and their future while the TAXI METER IS RUNNING AND THE BASIC FREE MINUTES START TO ADD UP. THE LONGER THE PERSON WHO CALLS TALKS, THE MORE MONEY THE PERSON WHO CALLS THEMSELF A PSYCHIC MAKES! AND IF THE PERSON ON THE HOTLINE CAN GET PEOPLE TO REQUEST THEM--THEY GET A BONUS. SO YOU CAN MAKE QUITE A LOT OF MONEY BY LISTENING TO OTHER PEOPLE TALK WHILE YOU DO NOTHING AT ALL. NICE WAY TO CON YOUR WAY INTO A LAZY JOB. AND EVERY SO OFTEN, WHEN THEY STOP TALKING, YOU START THEM UP AGAIN BY TELLING THEM WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR AND BY ARTFULLY FLATTERING THEM. WOW! WHAT A GREAT BOOST TO THE EGO. NOW YOU GET THE IDEA OF HOW THEY BASICALLY WORK. THEY DO NOT HAVE PSYCHIC POWERS. THEY ARE JUST READING A SCRIPT. AND TRYING TO SAY ANYTHING AND PROMISE ANYTHING TO KEEP YOU ON THE TELEPHONE AND RUNNING UP CHARGES BY THE BILLABLE MINUTES! Such an EASY SCHEME but people fall for it worldwide by the thousands. AND IF YOU ARE DOING THIS, SHAME ON YOU. I HOPE THAT YOU WILL GET A CONSCIENCE AND THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DEPENDING YOU TO LIE AND CONVINCE THEM THAT EVERYTHING IS OK AND THEIR WISHES WILL COME TRUE. THESE ARE BASICALLY LONELY, FRIENDLESS PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO FRIENDS OR THEY WOULD BE TALKING THINGS OVER WITH THEIR FRIENDS FOR FREE AND NOT HAVE TO RELY ON YOU! SHAME ON YOU FOR TAKING AS MUCH OF THEIR MONEY AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN FROM THEM WHEN THEY DON'T OFTEN HAVE IT TO GIVE! SHAME! I HOPE YOU GET A CONSCIENCE AND WILL STOP THE SCAM -- EVEN THOUGH IT ISEEMS LIKE AN EASY WAY TO GET MONEY! HARD TRUTH IS NOT PLEASANT BUT LOSING ALL OF YOUR MONEY DURING TIMES LIKE THIS IS NOT PLEASANT EITHER WHEN YOU NEED ALL THE MONEY YOU CAN GET JUST TO COVER THE BASICS LIKE FOOD AND SHELTER AND TRANSPORTATION AND CLOTHES AND EVEN A PAIR OF SHOES....HOMELESSNESS IS NO FUN BUT THAT IS WHAT I SEE IN YOUR FUTURE IF YOU GIVE ALL OF YOUR MONEY JUST TO HEAR A BUNCH OF LIES... THE SAD TRUTH COMES WHEN THEY CALL IN AND THEY HAVE NO MORE MONEY TO PAY BUT THEY WANT THE PLEASANT CONVERSATIONS TO CONTINUE AND THEIR WHOLE FANTASY WORLD WHICH HAS BEEN ALL ABOUT THEM FALLS IN WHEN THE HARD TRUTH SINKS IN. THIS IS STRICTLY A PAY FOR PLAY OR TALK SCHEME AND THE SMILES AND THE NICE WORDS GO AWAY IF THEY HAVE NO MONEY TO PAY.. SO SAD. I ALSO SEE THE HUMAN VERMIN DEFENDING THEIR PSYCHIC HOTLINE SERVICE UNDER A VARIETY OF NAMES BECAUSE THIS IS OFTEN THE MOST MONEY THEY CAN MAKE WITH THEIR EDUCATION AND THE JOB MARKET BEING WHAT IT IS. IT IS NOT UNLIKE PUSHING DRUGS BECAUSE THE WORDS, LIKE THE DOPE, MAKE YOUR WORLD A VERY PLEASANT PLACE AND YOU ARE ESCAPING REALITY BUT JUST LIKE YOU HAVE TO CRASH SINCE YOU CAN'T STAY HIGH FOREVER, THE SAME THING WITH THE FAKE PSYCHIC HOTLINES, IF YOU WANT THE ESCAPE AND THE GOOD FEELINGS TO CONTINUE, YOU HAVE TO PAY TO PLAY -- OTHERWISE, YOU ARE CUT OFF. THIS CROOKEDNESS NEEDS TO STOP! DO NOT START CALLING THESE PEOPLE. IT IS A SCAM. LIKE ALL SCAMS, ALL IT DOES IS TAKE YOUR MONEY AND THESE DAYS, YOU NEED TO SAVE ALL THE MONEY YOU CAN!