How to Spot a Fake Psychic

This is how to spot a fake or phony psychic when you go for a reading, either online or face to face.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. The first step is to be completely sure of the questions that you have to ask the reader and not to give away too much information. One method that is very common, is called "cold reading" that is to ask leading questions to the client to get an idea of what they really want to hear and this has very little relationship to actually doing a reading for real.

2. Next be prepared to ask questions yourself, verify the information that you are being given by the reader, ie when they make statements, try to get them to clarify them. I see far too many readers being very general with clients and that is a waste of time for both the reader and the client.

3. Finally before you even go to the reader, ask around from previous clients that you might know, or ask the reader for testimonials and phone numbers so that you can verify with others that they got a good reading from the advisor.

Tips & Warnings

• Be open minded about your reading before you go in but not gullible
• be prepared to check the references of the advisor before you go.
• finally don't give them any financial details, ie credit card numbers, bank pins.

Resources

• Liveperson, experts to the world

[rupertdrake]

on 11/8/2009 It's not that simple , Expert Cold readers can be easily called psychic , Watch Derren Brown shows and you'll get what I mean !

[carby]

on 3/23/2009 thanks for the tips. 5*

[Clairejoy]

on 3/21/2009 good info thanks

[jull14]

on 3/21/2009 Great article. It has many good qualities, helpful, informative and great 5*

[gerrie5044]

on 3/21/2009 Thanks for the great tips on spotting a fake psychic! 5* and rec