Overseas Fugitive Brought To United States, Authorities Said He Ran Fake Psychic Scam
by Alex Lloyd Gross
Georg Ingenbleek, 58, a citizen of Germany, was brought to the United States and then sent right to jail. Ingebbleek was indicted in 2020 for sending out letters to people who he claimed were from real, well know psychic’s. The recipients were told that they were being contacted because they had been the subject of specific visions by the psychics, including visions that the recipients were going to receive large sums of money and good fortune. Many of the letters falsely promised that the psychic services being offered were free of charge. In fact, the letters were mass-produced using software and information provided by Ingenbleek to a direct mail marketing services company.
If someone took him up on a free reading, they then got a second letter by a different company, with fraudulent billing notices to the same victims that stated that the victims owed money for psychic services, which in many cases had been offered free of charge. The fraudulent billing notices were labeled “collection notices” and “invoices,” falsely representing that the victims owed late payment fees, and falsely stating that a psychic or astrology organization would refer the victim to a “collection agency” and take legal action if the victim did not send a check, usually for $20 to $50. Through his fraudulent psychic mailing campaign, Ingenbleek obtained more than $10 million dollars from this scam.
Ingenbleek knew that time was running short for him . He ran this scam from 2011 through 2016, authorities said. At that time he contacted the companies wh0o were doing his mailings and told them to destroy the mailings.
In one email, dated September 23, 2016, Ingenbleek told a representative of a Company, “You cannot wait! I advise you urgently to get rid of the material! Use your own car, rent a truck, start today, work all weekend. He is charged with two counts of mail fraud. The case will be handled out of Newark. U.S.Postal Inspectors from Philadelphia helped in the investigation, authorities said.