Fact #39 HistoryTactics

1994 to 2014the years one US psychic-letter mail fraud operation kept mailing

One US psychic-letter mail fraud operation ran from 1994 to November 2014, sending near-identical letters claiming a personal vision about the recipient to tens of thousands of people a week.

Nobody moderates an envelope: there is no platform, host or spam filter, so the case came from postal inspectors. The operator was arrested in Ibiza in December 2018, extradited two years later and convicted in June 2023.

Source: US Department of Justice, Civil Division. Read more: mass mailing fraud · case file

Sources

  1. United States v. Patrice Runner. US Department of Justice, Civil Division. Accessed 2026-09-06. Supports: The 1994 to November 2014 scheme, the Maria Duval and Patrick Guerin letters, tens of thousands of near-identical letters weekly, the four entities used, the extradition from Spain and the June 2023 conviction.