The Ingenious $200 Million Psychic Scam

Just how did this psychic scam with Marie Duval last for decades? Find out in this video!

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Millions Scammed
"I'm already thinking what I would do with all this money," one victim wrote in a letter response to psychic Marie Duval. "My wife would not have to work anymore and would drive a newer car.” The letter continued.

A Simple Letter
A typical unsuspecting victim would receive a letter in the mail. To them, it looked like a personal, handwritten letter. What a lot of people that replied would have in common was desperation.

Purchased Lists
The scammers zeroed in on potential victims by buying lists of targeted demographics from data brokers that sell this information. The list contained many personal details, such as names, addresses, birthdates.

Repeated Letters
So when one of their victims would actually reply to one letter, the scammer would send even more letters asking for more money. The money was supposed to be for supposedly “unique and supernatural objects” and “personalized astrological services and studies”.

The Search for Marie Duval
So who WAS Marie Duval? Was she actually a real person? Some people speculated that she was a made up person, while other people were adamant that she was completely real and enjoying her retirement in the South of France.

Letter OperationShell Companies
What Infogest would do was send large batches of letters all over the US and Canada before they actually individually mailed out letters to their targets. This was an obvious attempt to evade authorities who had tried to shut down the letters before.

Cease and Desist
In late 2014, the Department of Justice shut down the ability to send letters by both Data Marketing Group and Infogest Direct Marketing. After 6 long years, the US Government was finally able to extradite a Canadian man named Patrice Runner from Spain in 2020.

True Identity
Surprisingly, Marie Duval IS a real person, as found out by CNN in their investigation behind the scams. And she WAS a renowned psychic. But is she the real mastermind?
Marie Duval’s real name is Maria Carolina Gamba.

Questionable Involvement
CNN was able to track down Marie Duval’s son. He claimed that his mother was very upset about the letters, but there was nothing that she could do since she signed away her name. But what about the times when she defended the letters?

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