if you could be guaranteed good fortune
by purchasing one of these medallions
for just $40 would you buy it well
millions of people did pay the $40 to
the destiny Research Center and
specifically psychic Maria Duval
after receiving a multi-page
personalized solicitation Maria Duval is
a world-renowned psychic and she had a
personalized specific premonition about
you some sort of a vision and that good
fortune was going to come your way but
to realize that good fortune recipients
needed to make a small purchase of a
medallion or talisman very very cheap
mass-produced trinkets from China and
Hong Kong the purchase prices would be
anywhere from 10 cents to a dollar 50 or
less and they were bought by the tens of
thousands
postal inspectors began to investigate
after receiving complaints from victims
then they filed an administrative action
with the courts to cease Maria Duval's
mail you're looking at one month's worth
of envelopes from victims of this scam
more than 30,000 pieces of mail at about
$40 a piece that would be about 1.2
million dollars that we have
saved for the victims over the course of
the year that would be something in the
neighborhood of 15 million dollars the
letters did have a small note on the
side stating this solicitation is for
promotional purposes only it was almost
impossible for me to read and the
elderly victims who received these
solicitations surely would have been
unable to read it and most of the
victims were elderly inspectors are
urging consumers to be wary of any and
all solicitations that arrive in the
mail a hundred thousand solicitations a
week it's hard to have a personal
connection with a hundred thousand
people each week I think that surpasses
any volume of Facebook friends you might
have