Any professional psychic or medium, especially those who are published authors or blog writers, will never reach out to via chat. You won’t get any DM stating how much they were drawn to you, how important this message is, or how quickly spots or sale prices will disappear. Many authors and professionals will take the additional step of verifying their accounts. This is mainly to protect you from fraud.
What else does this fraud look like? Personal DMs out of no where for starters. Facebook groups are especially rife with scammers. Not only are these people not psychic at all, most of them do not believe in the skill and are simply looking for their next target. One tactic is to post in a group that they are offering free readings to those they feel drawn to, and to please message them. Once you message them, they will ask for a donation up front, and may or may not ever give you a “reading”. Another tactic is to reply to a post from someone who is asking the group for help, advice, or assurance. “I feel drawn to you”, “Your energy reads as someone who is special”, “I sense a lot of evil around you”, “I can help make this all go away”. Red flags! Again, we see these grifters playing on peoples hopes, fears, doubts, shame, or moments of reaching out for true connection with a fellow human. These people are not here to help you, they are here to profit off of your emotions.
We all want to feel special, we all want to feel valued, and validated, we all want to know it is going to be okay – especially these days. We are searching for real helpers, real solutions, real answers, real resolutions.
So, how do you avoid these scammers? Besides a healthy dose of discernment, it is to get real with ourselves and to become our own best support and source of nurturance. If it is too good to be true, it most definitely is. Be wary of people who use a lot of emojis and extra fancy characters, ignore altogether private and uninvited DMs, and don’t message people in posts that want to give you a “free” reading, because they never will be, you will always have to give a small “donation” upfront. I know this because I have engaged several of these people and accounts over the last 6 months, and they playbook, the tactics, and the outcomes are always the same.
If a psychic, medium, reader, shaman, guru, healer, Reiki practitioner, anyone offers you services out of the blue – vet them. Go to their social media page, their personal page, their website. Ask around. Talk with them (for free). See if they are who they claim to be. It is okay to be skeptical, it is okay to take your time, it is okay to want more information. If anyone tries to bypass your caution, it only means that they benefit from you not taking your time. That is not the right relationship for you. Do your due diligence, protect yourself, and stay safe.