| ople were left wondering whether karma had worked | | | | charged with possession of fraudulent identification. |
| its magic yesterday after a pair of tarot card reading | | | | The pair were held by the county court on a bail of |
| con artists were jailed in Chicago for defrauding their | | | | $750,000 each, and they are both scheduled to appear |
| clients. | | | | back in court next month. |
| Eric Tan, 34, and Tracy Tan, 37, were charged with | | | | This case emphasises the importance of using reliable |
| planning to defraud their customers by persuading | | | | psychics and tarot card readers. Whether you choose |
| them that they were cursed. Once their customers | | | | to have a telephone reading, an email forecast or even |
| believed that they were cursed, the crooked con | | | | a face-to-face tarot card reading, it is essential that |
| artists convinced them that the only solution was | | | | you can trust the reader. |
| expensive counselling sessions at a potential cost of | | | | About Tarot Card Readings |
| thousands of dollars. As a police press release | | | | Tarot Cards are a deck of 78 brightly illustrated cards |
| explains, “Tracy Tan would convince the | | | | that can be used to make predictions about the future. |
| customers that they had a curse on them, and that | | | | The cards are divided into two sections, the minor |
| she was the only one who could fix their problems. | | | | arcana and major arcana. Like regular playing cards, |
| During this 'counselling,' she would charge her victims | | | | the major arcana boasts four suits of 10 cards that |
| thousands of dollars for her services and products, | | | | are numbered from ace to 10, as well as four court |
| which provided them with a false sense of | | | | cards; the page, knight, queen and king. The minor |
| hope.” | | | | arcana features the more famous tarot cards such as |
| The Tans had their business, Psychic Tarot Card | | | | The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance and The Devil. |
| Reading, searched by police after complaints from | | | | Prior to a reading, Tarot cards tend to be shuffled by |
| unhappy clients. During the search on the unlisted | | | | the reader or subject, before being placed face down |
| business, which was located near Naperville, police | | | | in a pattern or ‘spread’ onto a flat |
| seized a substantial amount of cash and jewellery. | | | | surface. Every card’s position in the spread has |
| Following the findings, arrests were made and as a | | | | a particular number, and the cards are then turned |
| result, Tracy Tan was charged with eight felony | | | | over in that order. The card’s position in the |
| counts, which include theft, forgery and possession of | | | | spread shows which aspect of the subject’s |
| fraudulent identification. Meanwhile, Eric Tan was just | | | | life the card is referring to. |