Talk:JoJo Savard/Archives/2015
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Deleted "criticism" section, people!
I deleted the following passage from the article. Apart from being written in an unencyclopedic manner, the source of this text is dubious. It actually looks like a short story, not a news article. Redquark 01:19, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Criticism
Her multi million dollar business has phone lines are set up to detect a caller's location. This is routed to a nearby by "psychic" operator who knows the caller. The phone companies get a percent of the 1-900 call, JoJo (Josie) takes a percentage, and the "psyhchic" gets the rest.
This is explained in a 2005 article:
"They tell you you live in a blue house and you were just laid off from work in the textile factory by Highway 71 and that your kid broke his arm last week.”
“Do they now,” I said with the skepticism of someone listening to a man in the midst of boasting of his knowledge of scams.
“Uh-huh. And you know how they do that? It’s because,” he continued immediately, without waiting for a reply, “They know you. They live right across from your blue house and used to work in the same goddamn textile factory until they were laid off, too.
“The phone lines,” he told me, “They have a system, did you know that? There’s a, there’s a computer, it tells you where the called is from. Then the call is routed to the nearest phone psychic. And Bell telephone is in cahoots with this, did you know that? They get 30% of the revenue from this.” From: [1]
One Million Dollar Challenge
If she can see into the future she would apply for the one million dollar paranormal prize that James Randi offers, or even better, win the lottery. The million dollar challenge is at http://www.randi.org/
She is such a good psychic that she never foresaw her own bankruptcy.
- I deleted 3/4 of the page. Most of it read like an advertisement. It was likely lifted from her official biography off her site. The article requires some additional content as well as some citations. I could swear Jojo was removed from Canadian TV in the 90s for fraud. I could be wrong. Citations?Mundilfari (talk) 05:22, 15 November 2009 (UTC)