Key players charged in $200 million psychic mail fraud case
Two people have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud for their roles in one of the biggest consumer scams in history, according to court documents unsealed this week.
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'Easy prey': How a massive psychic fraud gained its power
CNN journalists Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken have spent years investigating one of the largest consumer frauds in history -- a case that has stumped global investigators for decades. The scheme, which duped victims out of millions of dollars with letters claiming to be from a famous French psychic named Maria Duval, is the subject of the reporters' new true crime book, "A Deal with the Devil." The following excerpt has been edited for brevity.
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