The Greatest Scam Ever Written | 1. Your Devoted Friend

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Sony Music

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

What would you do if you got a mysterious letter promising to restore your health and vitality? Doreen Robinson wrote back and sent money to the French psychic named Maria Duval who’d written to her. As their relationship deepened, Doreen had no idea that she wasn’t the only one. In fact, hundreds of thousands of people had gotten a Duval letter, and gave an estimated $175m. How was this possible? Unlock all episodes of The Greatest Scam Ever Written, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month thats all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click Subscribe on the top of the Smoke Screen show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. An ITN Productions & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Smokescreen, the greatest scam ever written.
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0:25.1	Binge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.0	The Binge. the bench.
0:41.0	I just literally remember my past lives. I just remember that I was this multi-dimensional being since I first
0:45.0	came here and strangers would come up to me and just tell me things. It's a rainy day
0:50.4	in late February 2024 and I'm sitting in a cozy living room at a home in Toronto's East End.
0:57.0	I'm waiting for Tara Green, a well-known psychic in town to start my reading. Tara's everything I'd imagine a psychic to look like.
1:06.4	Dark flowing clothes and bright almost sparkling green eyes that make me feel
1:12.1	like she's looking right through me.
1:14.3	She starts by smudging me to cleanse my aura.
1:17.6	Smoke curls up from the bundle of sage leaves that she's holding in her hand.
1:22.1	People come in with all kinds of stress, memories, and entities.
1:27.0	So I just want to clear all that for you.
1:30.0	Tara's really trying here, but I just can't quite relax into this.
1:37.0	Honestly, I'm not a regular psychic-goer by any means.
1:42.0	This is not my natural environment, but I want to see what Tara will say
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