Skating star swindled: Police arrest 'fortune tellers' who took $32K from Olympic champion Sotnikova 'to solve boyfriend woes'
https://www.rt.com/sport/477505-adelina-sotnikova-fortuneteller-fraud/
Adelina needs to be more aware other circumstances and how people will want to take advantage of her. But my heart breaks for her sister Maria's lifelong illness and I can understand how Adelina would do anything to help her even listening to psychics or whoever it is.
I am glad the people involved have apparently been arrested and hopefully they will spend a long time in jail. I just wish there was someone to advise Adelina. Because these kids are Elite at something like figure skating and smart but figure skating it doesn't mean they are life smart and they need to be protected better than they have been. Let's be honest parents agents managers need to do better jobs than they do.
The skater involved here, Sotnikova is 23 years old a full-grown adult.
so adults don't make mistakes or taken in? Yes Adelina is an adult. I just wish this situation had been avoided. The sad thing is they're always sneaky people ready to prey on unsuspecting people in need. That will unfortunately never change.
Adults can certainly make mistakes - my post was in reply to your post about "these kids" needing protection; Adelina's not a kid she is an adult
"Psychics" of this breed are skilled con artists. They prey on the vulnerable. Even the brightest people can be taken advantage of. After the death of her son, successful romance novelist, Jude Deveraux, was swindled out of millions by a "psychic" over a long period of time. I'm glad that the person who scammed Adelina was caught. So many of these people are never brought to justice. (Sylvia Browne comes instantly to mind.)
Well I was a victim of fraud an older age than Adelina was and I should have been more on the ball and it cost me many thousands of dollars. What they did to Adelina is pray on her pain of having her sister with an illness for life and to take advantage of that is especially cruel. Glad for those who have been arrested. They certainly bring great shame to their families. Unbelievable.
Sylvia Browne’s greatest worst hits: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MY7xkPqW0G8
I will never understand why anyone would waste their money and time on these psychics. Or fundamentalist tele-ministers. All are frauds.
The skater involved here, Sotnikova is 23 years old a full-grown adult.
Then, obviously, this is a problem that affects vulnerable people of all ages & it is not just “kids” who need protection.
That's a very interesting point and a very accurate point. People who spend their lives in the gym or on the rancor on the football field or on the soccer field or in the basketball arena or the hockey arena might not be savvy outside of their facility.That doesn’t mean she isn’t naive. People miss out on things spending their lives in ice rinks. (Not that it’s their fault).
So true.sad but true.Romance scams prey on older women and men and Interpol won’t get involved. People have lost millions and sometimes Western Union and other money sending agencies will block them from sending money and they will convince others to do it for them. It is really sad.
That doesn’t mean she isn’t naive. People miss out on things spending their lives in ice rinks. (Not that it’s their fault).
I saw this on Twitter...suffice to say a few people wrote some rather unkind things about Adelina.
She must feel like a fool and I doubt she needs others to point it out. :/
I'm glad the scammers got caught!