Claiming supernatural powers is also an area where the market has been proven.
Buy a box full of dice and keep throwing them and recording the results. One "lucky" dice will emerge with a very high frequency of rolling sixes. N mediums give readings, one gets a very high correct rating, that is the one that gets talked about. "I wasted 30 quid on a rubbish medium" is not the sort of news most people propogate. "It was uncanny, how could they have known that?" is.How many personal recommendations do you think you would get on cold reading techniques plus some research? Wouldn't be enough I'm sure, and you'd hardly be the worlds gifts to con artists at a few £30 an hour gigs every so often.
It would be a poor businessman that spent their time researching customers that could not afford to pay the prices sought. 30 quid and hour keeps food on the table, but what a fake medium would seek out is those with a lot of cash. Wills are public documents. Read a selected few of those and it is possible to get loads of family information as well as the size of the potential returns. Make the first appointment with a new client in a few weeks time and get some time to research, go through their bin a couple of times etc.
30 quid is starters. You first dance lesson could have been free. How much have you spent on it since? I wonder how many mediums are mentioned in wills? I doubt their profession is stated.
The news quote is about an inept con artist who may, or may not be, an inept medium as well.This news quote is about a con artist pretending to be a medium not a medium who is a con artist - surely theres a difference, and its that difference the new law addresses. What this "23 year old" did has always been illegal.
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