YAY!

July 25, 2001 10:59 AM

YAY! I'm so sick of this bloodsucking cow....
posted by BGM (22 comments total)

If you've never seen her, good for you, since you clearly have better things to do with your time than watch TV, but if for some reason you want to find out more about her there's a link to her website at the bottom of the article.
posted by BGM at 11:02 AM on July 25, 2001

You think she'd have seen this coming. Har.
posted by dong_resin at 11:11 AM on July 25, 2001

Excellent! Now they just need to go after John Edward while they're at it.
posted by webmutant at 11:19 AM on July 25, 2001

"Moynihan said the company has safeguards to prevent minors from calling, and only those who lie about their age can get through to the psychic."

I thought you couldn't lie to Miss Cleo?
posted by Tenuki at 11:21 AM on July 25, 2001

Next up... Pre-paid Legal Services, Inc and "Non-profit" debt assistance organizations. Maybe growing up with British TV has meant I've lead a sheltered life, but I am amazed at what a haven for scammers late night US TV is.
posted by pascal at 11:29 AM on July 25, 2001

Missouri residents who never requested the service, including deceased people, have received bills for Miss Cleo's services...

well, that makes sense. Dead people talk to psychics all the time, right? They know they aren't going to have to pay.
posted by th3ph17 at 11:30 AM on July 25, 2001

Hey, I found some new wallpaper for my desktop. (1, 2, 3)
posted by waxpancake at 11:36 AM on July 25, 2001

funny. I'm sick of news sites that spawn useless java applets and crash my browser...
posted by machaus at 11:50 AM on July 25, 2001

I know a Seattle actress whose supervisor at some long-dead dotcom was the aforementioned Miss Cleo (I forget her real name). That bizarre Irish-cum-Jamaican accent? Yes, it's horseshit. She's American.

So when do we get to string up Matthew Lesko?
posted by Skot at 11:52 AM on July 25, 2001

CALL ME NOW
posted by corpse at 11:56 AM on July 25, 2001

Isn't Cleo's ad the one with the fake radio jock who says "And the great thing about you is that you don't just tell people what they want to hear - you give them the real deal"?

"You owe me 100 bucks" certainly isn't what anyone wants to hear. Where's the false advertising?
posted by pascal at 12:13 PM on July 25, 2001

"Miss Cleo should have seen this coming," Attorney General Jay Nixon said.

If she had, wouldn't it undermine his case? And why does it take and Attorney General to point out that this is fraud?

I weep for the future.
posted by hotdoughnutsnow at 12:54 PM on July 25, 2001

OK, I've seen Miss Cleo a couple of times, but the guy that really creeps me out is that guy with the chia-esque wig! Anyone else seen that guy?

Also, I watch soccer pretty much at every available opportunity, so I sometimes run across this alarmingly vivid individual on spanish TV who makes liberace look like a conservative dresser. He's very into the candelabras and makeup. I don't speak Spanish so maybe it's not a psychic infomercial. Maybe the guy's a roofer.

Who am I to say?

Can I get a witness?
posted by Kafkaesque at 3:38 PM on July 25, 2001

I weep for the future.

definitely. fortune tellers are a brand new trend. :-)
posted by jpoulos at 3:40 PM on July 25, 2001

Kafkaesque, the individual you're thinking of is Walter Mercado. His name may be as recognizable as that of Che Guevara throughout much of Latin America and among hispanics in the US. I haven't investigated his finances but I suggest that his empire dwarfs that of Miss Cleo or the late Psychic Friends Network.
More Info
posted by Octaviuz at 4:12 PM on July 25, 2001

More Info
posted by Octaviuz at 4:13 PM on July 25, 2001

I vote skallas is no fun.
posted by hotdoughnutsnow at 4:53 PM on July 25, 2001

Hey! I thought this thread was about bloodsucking cows! Who's this Miss Cleo person?
posted by rodii at 8:51 PM on July 25, 2001

Damn, rodii,

My brain, my poor brain. I...someone...the horror.
posted by john at 12:30 AM on July 26, 2001

Did someone say "bloodsucking"?

Viva el chupacabra!

yiyiyiyi!
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:52 AM on July 26, 2001

am I the only one who thinks its hilarious that they still refer to her throughout all this as "miss cleo" and not fifi hernandez or whatever her common name is?

Coll mee naow for yourrr frreeee reeeeedinnng...
posted by DiplomaticImmunity at 11:06 AM on July 26, 2001

Here are some class actions lawsuits filed in Florida, Manhattan.
There was a MeFi thread about one that was filed in Misourri, but I wasn't able to find it. They had apparently falsely billed a lot of people, including some deceased folks.

*insert poke a psychic failing to see that someone was no longer with the living and billing them anyways, here*
posted by Nauip at 1:08 PM on February 19, 2002