Archive Episode: Beware the Boardwalk Psychic
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this 2019 episode, Marlene is enjoying the Atlantic City boardwalk with a friend when a young woman approaches her. The woman introduces herself as Savannah and offers to give Marlene a psychic reading. Figuring it will cost her just a few dollars, Marlene takes her up on the offer. Savannah takes Marlene back to her shop. During the reading she picks up on many of the troubles Marlene is facing in her personal life. Having gained Marlene’s trust, Savannah offers her various items for sale in the shop, promising that they will solve her problems. Marlene chooses a few things within her budget to purchase and starts to leave. But Savannah’s not done with her yet. She gives Marlene her phone number with an offer to continue to help her. It all seems innocent to Marlene, but this chance encounter with a boardwalk psychic will morph into a long, complex relationship that will leave her nearly broke.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on The Perfect Camp. |
| 0:05.0 | You probably spent many lovely summer evening strolling down a busy street full of retailers and restaurants and their colorful awnings and signs, and you spotted a very different |
| 0:15.8 | kind of pitch from a psychic. Heck, as I look out the window of the coffee shop I'm in right now, |
| 0:21.3 | there's a sign saying psychic shop, palm, tabro readings, and |
| 0:25.4 | cleansings. Have you ever wondered what happens if you go inside? I don't |
| 0:30.9 | recommend it. You might have a harmless but expensive chat with someone claiming to have special |
| 0:36.1 | powers that are augmented by your cash and that's the end of it. Or you might end up having an experience like today's guest who walked into a psychic shop in Atlantic City |
| 0:47.0 | and really wasn't able to walk away until the woman inside had stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars. The episode also includes a |
| 0:55.8 | great guest who has studied psychics and con artist criminals and can tell you |
| 0:59.8 | what really makes them tick. We've plucked this episode from the archives for you as we prepare |
| 1:05.3 | brand new episodes of the perfect scam. Here's host Julie Gets with our story. Beware the boardwalk |
| 1:11.4 | psychic. She says to me, you know, but you like quote-unquote reading. |
| 1:16.0 | And I said, okay, she would say you have a negativity about you. |
| 1:20.0 | You know, we can help you get rid of the negativity. |
| 1:22.0 | I said, well, okay, she seemed to be honest. We can help you get rid of the negativity. |
| 1:22.6 | I said, okay, she seemed to be honest. |
| 1:24.8 | She had a very nice way about her. |
| 1:26.5 | It's frustrating because these people, |
| 1:29.3 | they're getting away with the, I'm not going to say murder, |
| 1:31.2 | but it's not right, it's not right what they've done. |
| 1:34.0 | Hello and welcome back to the perfect scam. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm Julie Gutz. |
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