Archive Episode: The Hidden World of Psychic Scams, Part 1

Published: July 21, 2023, 4:01 a.m.

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In this 2019 episode, Debra is a divorced mother and ballroom dancer who travels between her home in Florida and her boyfriend\\u2019s home in New York City, where she trains with her dance partner. When Debra loses her part-time job in New York and breaks up with her boyfriend on the same day, she\\u2019s distraught. Without the extra income from her job and a place to stay with her boyfriend, Debra knows she\\u2019ll have to quit ballroom dancing \\u2014 even though she and her partner have been climbing the ranks on the Pro-Am circuit. During a walk in Greenwich Village, Debra sees a psychic shop she\\u2019s often passed by before and decides to stop in, hoping to find answers. Instead of finding answers, Debra finds herself in a five-year odyssey, desperately trying to find justice and trying to get back $28,000 that was stolen from her.

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