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Main Line Fortune Teller Rips Off Sick Woman Going Through Divorce: Police

A Main Line fortune teller should have seen her arrest coming, but police said she wasn’t actually looking into the future but rather ripping off an ill woman of $24,000.

Semeinta Siganoff, who went by “Samantha,” is a 36-year-old self-proclaimed spiritual adviser who offered her services through “Main Line Psychic” at 719 Lancaster Ave. in Devon, Pennsylvania, said police.

The victim went for a consultation in hopes of getting guidance as she dealt with declining health and a pending divorce from February to December of 2014, said Tredyffrin Township Police.

Samantha told her victim that there was “a lot of darkness and negativity” surrounding her and a “block” prevented the victim from having a successful relationship, said an affidavit of probable cause.

Samantha then offered the woman a $200 Chakra balancing. As the sessions continued, Samantha convinced the woman to give her $3,000 for a wedding dress – that the victim could never see – that would be kept in a special prayer altar so that a new relationship could thrive, said police. She also received $1000 for 112 special prayer candles to be burned at the altar.

The psychic then offered to “cure” the woman’s health issues through meditation, said police. Some of the meditation sessions included one where the woman gave Samantha thousands of dollars that the psychic then spread over the woman's body while praying for “more money in your life.”

The woman told police that come fall 2014, that Samantha kept “hounding” her for more money despite her life not improving. Samantha even would show up at the victim’s home, said police.

The victim told police that she kept supplying the psychic with money -- $24,000 in total – until a Christmas Eve meeting where the victim said she had seen no change in her life and Samantha said these things take time, said police.

This past June, the victim told Samantha that she felt taken advantage of. They agreed that Samantha owed the victim $20,000 and Samantha eventually hand wrote a “contract” where she promised to repay the victim $1,000 a month but the victim refused to sign the deal, said investigators. Samantha managed to repay $2,600 in any case, said police.

People who know Siganoff said she appeared to be living a comfortable life, driving a nice car, the entire time the alleged thefts took place.

Siganoff posted $10,000 bail and faces a theft by deception and fortune telling – a rarely implemented misdemeanor charge – at an Oct. 1 formal arraignment, according to court records.

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