Niagara Regional Police have laid fraud charges against a woman from Ridgeway, a small village…
Edmonton woman says she lost $80,000 to ‘astrologer’ she met on Kijiji
An Edmonton woman says she was bilked out of $50,000 in cash and $30,000 in gold by an astrologer who told her she was under a black magic curse. Legal assistant Manpreet Deol, 31, said the money represented her life savings. She had planned to use it to make a down...
Wicked witchcraft: Edmonton police warn about phony astrologers, psychic readers
That old black magic got one Edmonton victim in its spell, police say, and recently cost someone in the city $100,000. City police say they’ve received numerous reports of fraudsters who pose as astrologers and psychic readers. Some victims have forked over...
Alleged witchcraft practitioner pleads guilty to fraud
A man charged with practicing witchcraft plead guilty to one count of fraud in a Toronto courtroom on Tuesday. Murali Muthyalu, 37, allegedly defrauded a man $100,000 after claiming he could heal a sick relative by removing their evil spirits. Muthyalu is a visitor...
Psychic hit with witchcraft charge after man pays $101K to remove evil spirit: Toronto police
Toronto police say a psychic has been pretending to practice witchcraft, fraud over $5,000 and extortion after a customer allegedly paid more than $100,000 to have an “evil spirit” removed. Investigators say the accused Murali Muthyalu, 37, advertised his...
Brampton man arrested in spiritual scam after cleansing woman’s money, jewellery of ‘evil spirits’
A Brampton man has been arrested and charged after allegedly defrauding a woman of $61,000 in cash and jewellery in what police are calling a ‘spiritual scam.’ Peel police allege Darshan Dhaliwal told a Brampton woman that he had won a lottery and was...