Most people looking for a spell caster are not in a calm, analytical state of mind. They’ve been left, or betrayed, or they’ve had a run of things going wrong that stopped feeling like coincidence. They’re searching at two in the morning.
That’s exactly the state the scams in this industry are built to exploit, and they are very good at it.
I work in this field, so treat this with the appropriate suspicion. But I’d rather write it than not, because the volume of people being cleaned out by the same handful of tricks is genuinely grim - and because the tricks are recognisable once you know them.
The seven-hundred-dollar pattern
Almost every serious loss in this industry follows one structure. Learn this and you’ve avoided most of the risk.
It begins with something free or very cheap. A free reading, a $20 consultation, an unsolicited message telling you that someone sensed a heavy energy around you.
Then comes the diagnosis. Something is wrong, and it’s worse than you thought. A curse placed by someone close to you. A generational hex. A dark attachment. It’s specific enough to feel real and vague enough to be unfalsifiable.
Then the fix, which costs more than the first thing. You pay.
Then the complication. The blockage was stronger than expected. The ritual revealed a second layer. The spirits are asking for additional materials. Each message costs more money, and each one arrives when you’re already invested and can’t stand the thought that you’ve wasted what you’ve spent.
That’s it. That’s the whole machine. The single most reliable rule in this entire field: if anyone asks you for more money after you’ve paid, stop. Not “consider it carefully” - stop, and don’t send another cent. No honest practitioner discovers halfway through that the price has changed. We quote a price for work we’ve assessed, and then we do that work.
Red flags, in rough order of severity
They ask for more money mid-process. Covered above. This one is close to definitive.
They guarantee results. Nobody honest can promise you a specific outcome. Not me, not anyone. What we can promise is the work, the attention and an honest assessment. “Guaranteed results” or “100% success rate” tells you that you’re dealing with a marketing operation.
They found you, rather than the other way round. If you posted in a Facebook group about your breakup and received three private messages from spiritual advisers within a day, those people scrape groups for vulnerable posts. It is an industrial process. Nobody sensed your energy from four thousand miles away.
They create urgency. The curse must be lifted before the new moon. Something terrible will happen if you wait. This is the oldest lever in fraud and it exists purely to prevent you from thinking. Real work has timing considerations - lunar phases matter in some traditions - but timing is never a reason you must pay tonight.
They want payment you can’t reverse. Gift cards, wire transfers, cryptocurrency, Western Union. There is exactly one reason to insist on these: so you can’t get your money back. Card or PayPal offers you dispute rights. Anyone avoiding those is telling you something.
They tell you not to discuss it. “The work loses power if you speak about it.” No. Isolation from anyone who might say “this sounds like a scam” is the purpose.
They diagnose a curse you didn’t ask about. You came about your relationship and were told someone has hexed your family. Occasionally that’s a real assessment. Far more often it’s an upsell, because curse removal is the most expensive thing on the menu and impossible to verify.
There’s no way to tell who they are. No name, no consistent face, no history anywhere except the site trying to sell you something. A stock photo and a first name is not an identity.
How to check someone in ten minutes
Reverse image search their photo. Right-click, search by image. If the face belongs to a stock library or to a dentist in Ohio, you’re finished checking.
Check how old the site is. Search “whois” plus the domain. A site registered six weeks ago, presenting twenty years of experience, is lying about one of those.
Look for reviews somewhere they don’t control. Testimonials on their own website mean very little - anyone can write those, and many do. Trustpilot, Fiverr, Google, a Reddit thread: those are harder to fabricate. Note that fake reviews are now illegal in the US and the UK, which has made them less common but has not made them extinct.
Read the refund policy. Not whether it’s generous - whether it exists and whether it’s written to be understood. Absence of any policy, or a wall of clauses making refunds structurally impossible, tells you how they see you.
Ask something a template can’t answer. Send a question specific to your situation and see what comes back. A real person engages with your details. A machine - or someone running forty conversations at once - sends something that would fit anybody.
Search their name with the word “scam”. Obvious, and people skip it.
A practitioner who has never turned anyone down is not lucky. They are selling to everyone who asks.
What a genuine practitioner looks like
The reassuring signs are quieter than the alarming ones.
They tell you no. This is the strongest single indicator. Someone who takes every case regardless of whether they can help is running a shop, not a practice. I turn down cases weekly - situations where the connection has genuinely ended, requests aimed at hurting someone, people in crisis who need a different kind of help than mine, and people who mention they’d need to borrow money to pay. I’d rather lose the order.
They describe their method specifically. Not “ancient powerful energies” but what actually happens: how long, what’s used, what you receive, when. Vagueness is usually concealment.
The price is fixed and visible before you commit. No consultation to discover the price. No custom quote based on how desperate you sound.
They set expectations that include disappointment. “Most people see the first signs in two to four weeks, and in cases like yours it can take longer, and sometimes nothing shifts at all” is what honesty sounds like. It’s less thrilling than what the scammers write, which is precisely the point.
You get something in writing. A record of what was done. Not a text message saying “it’s finished.”
The uncomfortable part
Here’s where I have to be careful, because I have an obvious interest in what I’m about to say.
Even a genuine practitioner cannot promise you an outcome. This kind of work operates on energy, intention and timing. It can clear what’s blocking a situation, ease what’s stuck and strengthen what’s already there. It cannot manufacture feelings that don’t exist, and it cannot override another person’s fundamental will. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling.
Which means the honest answer to “will this work?” is: sometimes, depending on the situation, and nobody can tell you in advance with certainty.
There’s a second uncomfortable thing. Some people should not order this at all - not because they’d be scammed, but because the money would be better spent elsewhere. If you’re in acute distress, if you can’t stop checking their profile, if you’d need to borrow to pay, a ritual is not the thing that will help you most. A good practitioner will say this to you. A scammer will take your card details.
Urgency is the tell. Real work has a waiting list; a scam has a countdown.
If you’ve already been scammed
Contact your bank or card issuer immediately. Card and PayPal payments can often be disputed. There are time limits, so don’t wait out of embarrassment.
Report it. In the US, reportfraud.ftc.gov. In the UK, Action Fraud. This feels pointless and often is, individually - but patterns across reports are how these operations eventually get shut down.
Stop all contact. Once you’ve been identified as someone who pays, your details circulate. A common second act is a different “practitioner” contacting you to offer to undo the damage the first one did. It’s the same people.
Don’t carry it as shame. These operations are professionally run and target people at their lowest. Being caught by one says nothing about your intelligence - only about the moment you were in.
The short version
Nobody serious asks for more money after you’ve paid. Nobody honest guarantees an outcome. Nobody legitimate contacts you first. Nobody trustworthy needs payment in gift cards. And anyone who won’t tell you no when the answer is no isn’t practising - they’re selling.
If someone passes all of that, you may well have found a real practitioner. Whether their work helps you is a separate question, and one nobody can answer in advance.
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If you’re weighing up whether to work with someone - including me - you’re welcome to submit a free case analysis. You’ll get an honest read of your situation and my recommendation, which is sometimes that you shouldn’t order anything at all. It costs nothing and there’s no follow-up.
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