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Miss Cleo is dead at age 53
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NealMcCauley
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I know, he was incredible! His (along with Anthony Sullivan) super short-lived show Pitchmen is worth a watch if you can manage to find the episodes.
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Yep.
Yeah. The whole "worse people exist" argument has always struck me as intellectually lazy. As if anybody who isn't Hitler or Stalin is somehow above reproach.
Sure I can. She was a fraud and I won't miss her.
I can focus on more than one thing at a time.
Zoe
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This was the first thing that popped into my mind, but only because that Daily Show commercial with the bankruptcy quip got so overplayed back in the day. I'll never be able to disassociate the two.
On another note, wow, I had no idea she was so young.
Sexually Aggressive Uncle
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She made a living off of taking advantage of of people that couldn't afford it, much like all the faith based hucksters like Falwell and Jim Baker. Just another criminal with a PR manager.
Cancer is awful but I have no sympathy for her.
Cancer is awful but I have no sympathy for her.
What exact focus on enemies is being lost just because people say that psychic hotlines are scummy?
I would have prevented Trump from being president had I not wasted my loathing on Cleo.
She never went for her million dollars from the James Randi Foundation back in the day.
All she needed to provide was one demonstration of psychic powers and boom! An easy million dollars.Such a shame.
Saying RIP Cleo gives you +10 focus while saying she was a fraud gives you -20 focus.
Lol yea not really seeing the logic there
No... No she wasn't. As a Jamaican, it's always been kind of a joke to us that ppl believed she was one of us. Her horrible accent and just the way she carried herself was not convincing at all
LOL, I can hear her saying it in my head.
Funny how things like that stick with you.
For those saying what she did was no big deal:
The FTC made them erase 500 million dollars in debt owed by customers and pay a 5 million dollar fine.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/pre...forgive-approximately-500-million-outstanding
This is in addition to several more hundreds of millions at the state level.
She was by no means a small time "hustler". She was the face of a multi billion dollar fraud empire preying on the poor and uneducated.
The FTC made them erase 500 million dollars in debt owed by customers and pay a 5 million dollar fine.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/pre...forgive-approximately-500-million-outstanding
This is in addition to several more hundreds of millions at the state level.
She was by no means a small time "hustler". She was the face of a multi billion dollar fraud empire preying on the poor and uneducated.
You do realize that she was basically just an actor and didn't actually run the "Psychic Network" or saw any real money that came from it? I don't really understand why people are calling her a con artist, people that called in didn't even talk to her and they what basically paid for.
She was hired to play a part and she did it damn well, enough so that people still remember her all these years later from those goofy ass commericals. RIP Cleo.
SAD
Only 53? Thought she's older.
Seriously, I'm really surprised she was only 53. I thought she was much older.
RIP. Had no idea she was in VC.
Cool, she was Auntie Poulet.
lol, nobody was forced to call in just as nobody is forced to buy Joel Osteen's 32nd rehashed faith-based self-help book.
Cool, she was Auntie Poulet.
lol, nobody was forced to call in just as nobody is forced to buy Joel Osteen's 32nd rehashed faith-based self-help book.
So, it's ok to advance the cause of fraudsters so long as you are low level and only doing your job?
backflip10019
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I thought she was 53 back when the commercials were on the air.
Wow. So fraud is ok because no one forced you to fall for it? SMH.
Lord Error
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I'm not sure about her specifically, but every other psychic I've seen on TV were the people who prey on literally those most desperate, weakest, suffering from incurable diseases. They take money from them and give them lies in return. The worst kind of con artists.
ElectricBlanketFire
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You're thinking like you. Not someone that's either a) poorly educated/gullible b) desperate for help.
The Albatross
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After reading this thread, I don't feel so bad about making fun of her dying. ALways just thought of her like a Billy Mays-esque front person.
you magnificent bastard.
RIP to the person who scammed countless people out of money by preying on the loss of loved ones.
SoulUnison
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Weird. I just randomly thought about her a few days ago after forgetting she existed for like a decade.
I caught an Alakazam in Pokemon GO and named it "Mr. Cleo."
I caught an Alakazam in Pokemon GO and named it "Mr. Cleo."
Don't encourage me. I don't want to be responsible for taking away anyone's enemy focus.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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Capitalism consumes us all.
backflip10019
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At least she wasn't John Edward, who still today passes his cold reading "talking to your dead loved ones" bullshit off as real. At least Miss Cleo's commercials had "For Entertainment Purposes Only" stamped right on the bottom of them.
Nobody FORCED them to do business with him!
As the saying goes, hate the game, not the sociopaths who prey on the weaker, dumber, or more trusting around them.
She knew she was just an actress too, hence the problem.
Miss Cleo was the name used by a scam artist who preyed on the gullibility of desperate people for a living. She tried to have a legitimate career first and failed. She actually started a production company to produce plays, and coincidentally she apparently used the excuse of "she had bone cancer and her medical bills are too high" to not pay some cast members. I hate psychics.
I'm not saying "Good job, cancer!" or anything, but it just seems odd that this is even all that newsworthy (not just on GAF). I mean when Billy Mays died he was actively doing commercials and was somewhat of a meme. This would be like the shamwow guy dying in like ten years and people taking notice for some reason.
I'm not saying "Good job, cancer!" or anything, but it just seems odd that this is even all that newsworthy (not just on GAF). I mean when Billy Mays died he was actively doing commercials and was somewhat of a meme. This would be like the shamwow guy dying in like ten years and people taking notice for some reason.
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i knew someone that used to work for a psychic network. He was given a phone box and plugged it in when he wanted to work as a "psychic." After laying out tarot cards he would do a quick interpretation and then basically just have conversations with very lonely people. From how he put it he was "a friend for hire."
LostCaress
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I take no pleasure in the death of anyone but I am glad there's one less person taking advantage of others.
Zoe
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Are you a millennial?
None of my friends understand why I do this. But you do :'(
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