Twitter & Facebook Used For Psychic Scams by Criminals

Are you friending sales affiliates and criminals posing as psychics?

Nobody is safe when it comes to fraudulent psychics. Your Twitter, Facebook and Google+ account are all being circled by sales affiliates and criminals.

Fake psychics have to find a way of attracting new customers and they go to where the people are. That's why you are seeing a lot of free psychic reading offers on Facebook and Twitter from Australian and world psychic readers.

You need to be 100% sure which psychics you're friending and stop your private information being shared with psychics you don't really know.

Most importantly you need to stop your personal information being shared with your regular psychic reader.

Let's create an example scenario about a meet and greet psychic in Brisbane:

A psychic advertises in a local newspaper about a special free talk they are doing at a Brisbane venue in Australia. They befriend all who arrive and ask people to friend them on their Facebook account.

They share they're going to offer free psychic readings once a week.

Free Psychic Reading Trap

When you see their Facebook feed, free psychic offer, the psychic asks you to detail why you want a psychic reading.

You are asked to provide information about what is going on in your life and then the spiritual medium will give you angelic guidance from their spiritual guides to help you deal with your current situation.

Okay, hands up if you can identify why you need to be careful about a psychic friending you on Facebook and requesting information about your circumstances?

Who got it right?

If you questioned why a psychic needed your personal information before they did a free reading you would be right.

What about the fact you are allowing the psychic or spiritual medium to access your personal information to see your latest photos, your friends and what you are writing about in your life?

Do you think this is a little odd that a psychic is able to access all of your personal details?

Hopefully you answered yes.

Now why are so many of you friending psychics, mediums, clairvoyants on Facebook and Twitter. At least on Twitter you can make your profile private, but with Facebook they keep changing the privacy settings all the time and you have to opt in to tell which people you want to share your information with.

Do you regularly check your privacy settings when you update a photo or tag a friends profile?

I could take a guess and suggest maybe some of you do, but the majority of people who have friended a psychic wouldn't remember they can get access to all of your personal details.

Now why is this something that you should think about?

A lot of online psychic readers are sales affiliates from a variety of business backgrounds.

They are unable to provide genuine proof of psychic ability without knowing your personal information.

If you have to tell a psychic why you want a reading on Facebook then something is terribly amiss.

The same with a phone psychic reading. If a psychic asks so many questions why you want a reading and tries to get you to reveal a lot of personal information, you aren't having a credible spiritual reading.

A reputable spiritual medium would not want to know anything about your current circumstances at the start of your reading.

If they are truly psychic they will be able to tap into information without you sharing anything.

Remember you're paying for someone to reveal personal information about your life because they claim to be a gifted and an accurate psychic.

Now I'm going to warn you about something you might not have even considered when it comes to friending or following a psychic reader on your social network.

Because you are friending psychics on Facebook a lot of overseas online scams are seeing a way to get to you, and obtain your personal information.

These are not the run of your mill entertainment psychics, they are the nasty guns, the one's who want your banking information and your personal details for identity theft. They can easily create a fake psychic profile on Twitter and Facebook and direct you to phishing sites that place a computer virus or spyware on your computer.

Guess what, they are rampant and doing it as I write this new psychic blog article. Your past online behaviour of friending a psychic is giving them ample opportunity to disguise themselves as a loving, considerate and good psychic. They check what a psychic profile looks like and create something similar.

Criminals can create psychic websites. They can use false photographs and they are highly sophisticated when it comes to finding new victims to steal your money and identify. They are rampant on Twitter and Facebook now.

Facebook is trying to get users to changeover to Facebook email accounts and Twitter has a report phishing and spam section because over 70 percent of online profiles are fake. That's right. I'm not exaggerating when I share with you that I was spiritually guided nearly 70% of online business profiles are fake. As soon as the get rich quick spam businesses are identified they go and create another profile.

Cyber World - Why You Have to Get Up to Speed

You are now communicating in a different cyber world and if you don't take your personal safety and privacy details seriously, then criminals or fake psychic will take advantage of that.

What can you do about it?

1. Stop any psychic from friending you on Facebook. Immediately remove all friend's psychic Mind Body Spirit profiles if you converse with them regularly. We recently closed our Facebook account and closely monitor followers on Twitter and Google+. I'm guided spiritually that Facebook isn't capable of managing the amount of scams that are going to hit in cyberspace soon.


2. Change your privacy settings on Facebook, Linked In, Twitter to friends only and immediately stop online psychics from knowing your personal information.


3. Don't click online websites from Facebook and Twitter before thoroughly searching their business reputation on Google, Yahoo and Bing.


4. Type in the domain business address in Twitter and see if multiple accounts come up for the same business or psychic.


5. Don't click links that are not from a genuine website (do step 4 before clicking). Twitter will normally bring up a warning for phishing accounts.


6. Report any unusual Twitter accounts to the Twitter spam and management section. Do the same for Google+ and Facebook etc.


7. Don't believe recommendation sites. A lot of psychics are falsely recommending their own services by having multiple fake Twitter and Facebook accounts. They do this to build up false reputation. They also update fake psychic reviews etc.


8. Now this is simple, don't tell an online psychic why you need a reading. If they can coerce private information out of you, they can definitely up-sell money making schemes, flog off spells, hypnotherapy tapes etc.

Now take a deep breath and resonate with all of the information I've provided about the fraudsters and charlatans online. How do your online user habits allow them to get traction in the psychic or mind body spirit field?

If you believe what I've shared with you is important and relevant, follow the tips provided. We're living in a changing E-commerce world and you need to take responsibility for the information you are updating on your Twitter account and Facebook account etc.

If you have read any of my psychic background you will know that I was guided over 20 years ago to be found online to help people find a real spiritual medium (commonly known as a psychic).

In 2007 I was spiritually guided that I needed to educate people on how to find decent spiritual sensitives. Every time I'm given a psychic prediction about fake psychic services and scams I share them with you.

Spirit cares about the psychic arts and helping people find genuine light workers. You have to stop fake psychics and sales people getting a foot in and do your part to stop them getting in contact with you on your social networks.

We can all be apart of the same spiritual family, it doesn't mean the behavior of people separated from the highest good should be ignored. Be discerning and follow your gut instincts when it comes to sourcing credible psychics.

Love and Light

Vine

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Vine has been providing psychic readings services to her Australian and International clients for 30 years. She has written thousands of spiritual articles about identifying credible psychics. Her Australian and world psychic predictions are sought out by people all over the world because of her accuracy.

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2011 - Why Spirit is emphasising the Message of Oneness - Vine Psychic Line

I have a loving relationship with Spirit and when I'm being asked to step up the plate to do further spiritual work because guidance needs to reach people I am a willing participant.

You may not realize this, but everything about the work I do is guided by Spirit. I will fall asleep and receive spiritual guidance about every aspect of the business.

It might come as a surprise to you, but Spirit dislikes crystal balls and gypsy images that are displayed heavily in the psychic shops and psychic reading websites. This is why I was guided to do a spiritually designed website. The butterfly animation at the top of my website was shown to me night after night in a dream. I would wake and draw the images shown to me and write the words that would leap from the page. Needless to say I had to relay that guidance across to a graphic artist who painstakingly had to recreate the visions. I was guided to an amazing graphic artist in my hometown Melbourne and the rest they say is history.

Spirits real message that 'Everybody Deserves Clarity in Their Life' was to help people realize that we can all sometimes reach a difficult time in our life and find it hard to see the light for the trees. When this happens you can feel isolated, alone and find it hard to believe that Spirit is available to help you find a state of peace. Many clients will contact me for the first time and share they don't know why they are reaching out for a reading but they felt they needed to do it. These readings provide magical moments to clients who have never had a genuine spiritual reading before. When their loved ones from Spirit reach out to them and share only guidance and information that they only know - they're changed forever.

As a Medium those moments are special to witness and experience first hand. I never know anything about a reading until I tune into the individuals consciousness and only then will I know the reason why Spirit is reaching out to make contact. Grief can be a Debilitating dis - ease that sometimes stops people functioning in normal day to day life. If a loved one dies tragically or suddenly and you don't have a chance to say goodbye it can send people over the edge. Most clients who contact me for a reading are guided to contact me by their loved ones because they know their death has caused a great deal of pain.

Spirit initially guided me to work on the psychic lines in Australia and overseas because they warned people would be taken advantage of by the psychic scams entering the market place. Knowing how many scams there are now and regularly having people contact me to share some of their stories I understand why I was guided to do this.

Spiritual readings were never intended to be a means of businesses making a lot of money from the vulnerable people who use their services - they are meant to be a way of spirit reaching out to provide genuine guidance to help people get back on their feet. When I am being guided to write articles about psychic scams, mind manipulation and outright fraud it breaks my heart to see how tainted the psychic industry has become. In truth, the word 'psychic' has lost its real meaning because it has served a purpose by big business to market and promote anything psychic.

The psychic industry is a well-oiled machine that spirit describes has lost its way. They hire people to work the phones, manage any negative feedback or real transparency and heavily lobby governments to self regulate. Spirit in good humor describes them as spin doctors. Knowing that karma exists I think they will have a lot of karmic retribution to deal with at the end of their life.

This is the reason why I am being guided to use my voice to share genuine spiritual messages from the higher realms. Spirit is wanting me to write a book and to provide video lessons about the spiritual times we are now living in. I'm normally an extremely private person, and if you have read my biography you would know that I was once a reluctant psychic who wasn't keen about stepping forward as a psychic kid to do anything psychic. Now more than ever, I understand why I chose this pathway and when I see how people have benefited from having a spiritual reading I know that I am blessed to be a natural-born Sensitive.

It is no accident that you find yourself reading my articles, or contacting me for a reading - it is all spiritually divined. I am a servant to spirit as you are also, and I follow the guidance I receive to help you find the relevant articles and information that you need to read. I write the psychic predictions that I am being shown, which then are found by the people searching for the information.

When you realize that spirit does love and care for you and wants you to find your own inner voice you will begin to see why spiritual teachers were placed on the earth at this time to help you awaken to your own inner knowing.

2011 is a year that Spirit is reaching out to awaken the people who have forgotten how to spiritually see.


Love and Light
Vine

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