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[scottobear]

Miss Cleo! looks like you're in for it now, beebee. The link is a little backstory about here and telephone psychics in general from a local paper.

I never told you she was a local?

Pompano Beach mall (now mall of the dead) was the site of her first tv commercials. Since that old entry, all the bookstores have left, and Yvette is no longer at the pompano 18, which has run down, rapidly. The Goth / swingers club has folded, too.

Note to self, do a reprise of that area, and the strip mall of sin.

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[argumentplease.livejournal.com]

Wow! That was a very informative article... psychic readings are modern day snake oil.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Happy to pass it along... I'm sure there are some folks out there that're trying to be nice, and guide folks... but miss cleo and her crew seem not to be among them.

[lunalyn.livejournal.com]

If I have to see one more ad with her chanting "Call me now!" in that fake accent I will puke. The woman is down right annoying and gives respectable psychics (non tele-psychics) a bad name.
Unfortunately all the controversy just spells publicity. More calls and more ads. >sigh!<

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Hopefully the controversy will lead to the frauds and the cheats being shut down.

[lunalyn.livejournal.com]

We can only hope! Publicity is publicity, knowing no difference between bad or good. Some people can be gullible. She wouldn’t be responsible for 400 million dollars of revenue a year if they weren’t ;). There is a sucker born every minute. If these cheats and frauds think they can reach them via negative publicity, they will lay it on the line for a buck (or 7.95 a minute as it were.). Lets hope it's the end, but I have a sneaky suspicion it’s a publicity stunt.

[filleinvisible.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's all I can say. I mean, who doesn't know that all of these hotlines are fraudulent?! It just amazes me with how much they get away with. What would it take to put them out of business completely? I had noticed lately that the Miss Cleo ads on TV were in a decline. Now I know why.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

well... some people just want guidance, to the point of not thinking things through.

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/12.06.00/telepsychic-0049.html has a nice article on how a person became a phone-psychic.