Fake Psychic Medium Scams The Mayor - The Sophia Martinez story
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Who is the mayor of Agde and what is his dilemma?
So this guy, let's call him Mayor. And Mayor has a great life. He's the mayor of Agde, this town in France. And this town is actually the swinger capital of the world. So I guess everyone there would just be smashing. Sounds like fun. But, as fun as that sounds, not everything is going so great for Mayer. Because his dad passed away a few years back.
How does Sophia Martinez claim to communicate with the dead?
And Mayer wants nothing more than to communicate with his dad one last time. And one day, he gets to do just that. He reaches out to a psychic medium for help. Her name's Sophia. And of course, Sophia is like, yeah, I can communicate with the dead. I can totally help you talk to your dad. And awesomely. So they get together and they hold some kind of like seance, probably with candles and all that shit. And Sophia starts to channel the spirit of Mayer's father. And Mayer can hear his father's actual voice for the first time in years. And this is life changing for him. Except Sophia is full of shit.
What techniques does Sophia use to deceive the mayor?
She isn't actually talking to the dead, she's actually using her rather impressive ventriloquism skills to make her voice sound like the mayor's deceased father. And poor mayor, he wants to believe so bad that he falls for this scam, and he believes that he's talking to the spirit of his dad. And so he keeps these sessions with Sophia going regularly. He meets up with her and she does her fake psychic mumbo jumbo and he gets to talk to his dad. And he's happy. And Sophia even starts doing these psychic sessions over the phone. Like I guess one day Mayor will just be chilling at home and he'll suddenly get a phone call from his dead dad like, hey, how you doing, son? Which that doesn't even make sense to me.
How does Sophia expand her scam beyond the seance?
Like that has got to be the laziest ghost I've ever heard of. Like, sorry, son, I can't float over to where you are. I have to call you from the afterlife. That's ridiculous. But anyway, Mayer is just relieved to be communicating with his father. And over time, he grows really grateful to Sophia for helping him do this. Here's the thing about Sophia. She's twice divorced and has six kids. And that's fine. But that is a lot of mouths to feed on a single income. And so Sophia, she comes up with a plan to leverage Mayor's gullibility to make sure she and her family are taken care of financially. And so then one day, Mayor gets a phone call, and it's from an unknown number. And he picks it up, and the voice on the other end is like, Hello Mayor, it's Archangel Michael.
What role does Archangel Michael play in Sophia's scheme?
Now, if you don't know who the Archangel Michael is, it's this mythological creature from religious lore. And since Mayor has been talking to his dead father pretty regularly on the phone, when he gets a call from Archangel Michael, he doesn't really question it. And so Archangel Michael is like, Mayor, I need you to protect and take care of Sophia and her family. And Mayor is like, all right. Now, obviously this isn't really some mythological creature calling him on the phone. It's just Sophia, using her voice acting skills to put on a fake voice and trick him. Regardless, poor Mayer falls for it again, and he starts helping Sophia and her family financially in all kinds of ways. So on top of paying her regularly for her psychic services, he starts having his chauffeur drive her kids to school. He starts paying their kids tuition. He pays to have her kitchen renovated. He pays to get her a new porch. He treats her and her kids to luxury vacations to Thailand and the Polynesian Islands.
And when Sophia gets engaged to a man, Mayer goes ahead and pays for her whole ass wedding, which cost 80,000 euros, or about 90,000 US dollars. Now, here's the thing about all this money Mayer's been spending on this fake psychic. mayor isn't really a super rich guy so he has to get this money in some other way and he starts leveraging his local business connections to get people to do the work for free and these local businesses they're afraid they don't want to lose their contracts with the mayor's office so they all agree to do all this work for sophia for free and when mayor actually needs to pay for some of these gifts to sophia
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is the mayor of Agde and what is his dilemma?
0:00–0:23
2
How does Sophia Martinez claim to communicate with the dead?
0:23–1:01
3
What techniques does Sophia use to deceive the mayor?
1:01–1:45
4
How does Sophia expand her scam beyond the seance?
1:45–2:32
5
What role does Archangel Michael play in Sophia's scheme?
2:32–6:21
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