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How to distinguish a psychic from a charlatan

Clairvoyance is an unregulated consulting practice which is often carried out with people in questioning or fragile situations. As such, it implies reinforced ethical responsibility. A responsible clairvoyant/medium limits himself to announcing what he perceives, what he feels or what he “sees”, without ever directing, influencing or conditioning the person who consults him. He may, where applicable, be able to reveal the subject of the solicitation without asking prior questions. In all circumstances, he strictly respects the free will of the…

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Message to consumers of divinatory arts

By choosing a practitioner who is a member of the INAD, the consumer has the guarantee of contacting a declared professional, identified and committed on their honor to practice with loyalty and sincerity. INAD has always worked to ensure that divinatory practices are honest, ethical and respectful. This constant vigilance protects the public and promotes serious practitioners, who thus see their profession exercised in a credible and legitimate framework. In the official Directory: https://inad.info/annuaire/membres, you will find clairvoyants,…

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Online scams: the traps of charlatans and how to avoid them

Since its creation in 1987, INAD has been actively committed to combating abuses and scams linked to occult and divinatory practices. INAD emphasizes the importance of protecting vulnerable people, often targeted by self-proclaimed clairvoyants, charlatans and individuals with questionable motivations. These merchants of illusion often exploit the psychological distress of more or less vulnerable people, in search of answers, aggravating their worry, their suffering… We remind you that victims of these abuses have several recourses to assert their…

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Consumers, this concerns you

Are you passionate about the divinatory arts, do you have questions or concerns that you would like to clarify? Are you considering consulting a clairvoyant for clarification? Social networks are unfortunately infested with charlatans, enlightened people, usurping clairvoyants and marabouts, and it is easy to fall into the trap of unreliable practitioners. However, it is important to remember that real psychics are human beings like any other, with their own feelings and life experiences, they are not robots obeying the finger and the eye. To be fully…

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Professionals not recommended

Many consumers and practitioners remember our section: ‘‘List of professionals who should not be consulted’’ (3617 INAD), which hit the headlines and disturbed a large number of clairvoyance firms and Pseudo-professionals, which the press in general had reported on. This list helped prevent thousands of customers from donating their savings to these “professionals” with many faces, dubious skills and uncertain gifts, reconverted to the exploitation of human distress. Their overrated and flattering reputations made many gullible and fairly fragile…

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Professionals to avoid

Reminder: We expressly recommend to all customers - consumers to avoid using all professionals, firms, platforms, etc. who offer so-called free clairvoyance consultations (there is nothing free). If, despite our recommendations, the free experience tempts you, here are some useful tips: never communicate your contact details: name, first name, date of birth, address, or your email address, do not fill out any form, never provide your credit card number for so-called free clairvoyance because free means without charging. Customers-consumers are…

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False and misleading advertisements

Scams involving free clairvoyance and imaginary occult work are on the rise again. More and more of you are complaining about this or that psychic, this or that firm, this or that platform. If you believe that you have been the victim of deception, of fraud by a practitioner of the divinatory arts or a clairvoyance firm, etc., in order to enable you to assert your rights, in the absence of an amicable arrangement for reimbursement of the sums extorted or improperly taken, you have the possibility of filing a complaint against the author of the crime, to…

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For an Honest and Loyal Practice of Clairvoyance

To escape widespread abuse REMINDER!! For many years, the INAD has strived, in the general interest, to moralize the profession of divinatory arts and at the same time to protect consumers who, by being duped by certain companies or by certain clairvoyants specialized in the exploitation of credulity and human distress, consider that every clairvoyant is a charlatan or a potential crook, hence a rejection of clairvoyance and clairvoyants. The number of victims of telephone clairvoyance is unimaginable but as paradoxical as it may seem, the vast majority…

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INAD :
A bulwark against abusive professionals, enlightened people, charlatans and usurpers

Stop the scams REMINDER: Since 1987, the various interventions of the INAD – National Institute of Divinatory Arts – have greatly shocked many quiet skepticism but above all profitable “lobbies”. Shields have been raised, even among certain renowned professionals whose competence has been called into question by the INAD association. Our goal: protection and moralization of the profession in all its aspects: “required competence, conditions of access, various sanctions against any form of abuse, misleading commercial practices, false advertising,…

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Professionals, sites and platforms to avoid

All those who, in their advertising, use a first name accompanied by a decorative photo. The term photo decoration is made mandatory by law, as soon as a first or last name is used as a company name by a clairvoyance firm. Because these names or first names are in fact a commercial name used by the same company. To avoid possible prosecution for deceptive commercial practices and/or misleading advertising, some companies mention decoration photos on their advertisements. Consequently, before any consultation by telephone, you must check the information…

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Canvassing the scam

Reminder: In the context of clairvoyance by telephone and in order to avoid any misunderstanding, abuse or fraud and/or considered as such, it is up to the professional to inform his client that the duration of the consultation, as agreed, has come to an end. Failing this, the consultant has the right to contest any sum improperly taken without the consent of his client. Furthermore, more and more of you are receiving calls at home or on your mobile phone for clairvoyance consultations. To this end, we inform you that this type of clairvoyance is…

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Professionals and sites to avoid

We expressly recommend to all customers-consumers to avoid using all professionals, firms, platforms, etc. who offer so-called free clairvoyance consultations (there is nothing free). If, despite our recommendations, the experience of illusory free tempts you, here are some useful tips: - never communicate your contact details: name, first name, date of birth, address, or your email address, - do not fill out any form, never provide your credit card number for so-called free clairvoyance because free means without charging. Customers-consumers are…

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Clairvoyance, consultation and confidentiality

A clairvoyance consultation is a strictly personal, intimate act and must take place in complete confidentiality. Many professionals with questionable and uncertain skills have this unfortunate habit, on certain platforms, of making a public display of their consultation(s) to fairly fragile, naive and gullible clients, who thus find themselves exposed and exposed to the gaze and curiosity of others, which is absolutely unacceptable. If you are a responsible professional, it is your duty to respect the anonymity of your clients, to keep a reasonable…

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How to recognize a “good” psychic

REMINDER! However honest he may be, the clairvoyant, the true one, can fail when he undergoes a test seeking to prove his faculties. As divination is not subject to will, it is only the “gift” (immaterial faculty) which differentiates true from false. How to separate the wheat from the chaff? It seems that for the understanding and practice of the Divinatory Arts as for the people who consult them, clairvoyance, mediumship, tarology etc. are a conjectural phenomenon and therefore cannot be the subject of any certainty. Consequently, all professionals…

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The Monk in Djellaba

The short film ‘‘The Monk in Djellaba’’ is online. To discover behind the scenes of the world of clairvoyance, click on the following link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FseOrBqKrDg&feature=youtu.be We are interested in your opinion. Thank you.

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Call me urgently, I'm interested in your money

Please note, if you receive the following message from the ZORA company: “an important event has occurred. Call me urgently. I must give you the result of my clairvoyance: 10 minutes of free consultation, tel: 05 31 … Charles and Zora.” We advise you not to respond to this proposal, if you do not want to be yet another victim of this type of canvassing which resembles false advertising, or even an organized scam, nothing more and nothing less. For information, following the posting of our article above: “ZORA THE SCAM VIEWER”, calling into question the…

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List of professionals

The INAD provides consumers of the divinatory arts with a non-exhaustive list of professionals who can be consulted, among those who have accepted the principle of the Moral and Professional Charter, proposed by this organization. You will find in this list qualified practitioners, offering the maximum guarantee, loyalty, sincerity and competence. Of course, these practitioners are bound by an obligation of means, unlike those who claim to be specialized in “occult work” and who are bound by an obligation of results. You can also visit our site…

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Remote clairvoyance and audiotel

We recommend to all consumers that they should never communicate their bank details to an audiotel firm or any other clairvoyance professional by telephone, before having first obtained all the information* on: the conditions, duration and cost of a clairvoyance consultation, the name of the practitioner and the precise address where they practice. Otherwise, you risk being the victim of a scam and finding yourself having to pay a prohibitive sum for dubious clairvoyance, which is only in name. You should also know that behind several audiotel services…

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Clairvoyance and abuse

We remind you that this blog aims to allow everyone to express themselves freely and to give their opinion on very specific subjects exposed there without automatically suffering the wrath of those who do not agree. Vulgar, insulting, slanderous and off-topic messages with the articles covered will be deleted. Furthermore, in accordance with our role, in the interest of consumers but also in that of conscientious practitioners who suffer the damaging consequences of certain colleagues and dubious audiotel firms, the testimonies of the complainants will…

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Practitioners and audiotels

Over the last few months, many of you have complained about certain audiotel services which misuse “clairvoyance professionals”, qualified or not, by paying them as independent collaborators, at the rate of €4 to €5 per hour generated, that is to say the hour actually worked, which is truly unacceptable. It therefore becomes urgent to protect practitioners themselves against the abuse and exploitation of which they are victims to enable them to provide quality services to consumers. In order to put an end to the regular challenges from these exploited…

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Free expression

This site is intended for consumers and professionals to allow everyone to express themselves freely with dignity, respect for others and without any defamatory or insulting statements. As for the testimonies and articles emanating from the INAD, they are based on proven facts and established by certain evidence in order to change mentalities and take some responsibility for certain abusive firms and professionals who harm the entire profession. We invite any professional to speak, give their opinion, their recommendations or advice to the victims of…

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Focus

Some professionals claim to be recommended by the INAD, when they do not have or no longer have the status of member of the INAD and its recommendation. Consumers concerned are advised to carry out the check on the website www.inad info.

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Clairvoyance canvassing by SMS: lucrative deception

In the context of clairvoyance by telephone and in order to avoid any misunderstanding, abuse or fraud and/or considered as such, it is up to the professional to inform his client that the duration of the consultation, as agreed, has come to an end. Failing this, the consultant has the right to contest any sum improperly taken without the consent of his client. Furthermore, more and more of you are receiving SMS messages on your mobile phone for clairvoyance consultations. To this end, we inform you that this type of clairvoyance is neither advised nor…

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Proof of the agreement concluded

If it is not possible to obtain a written document specifying the conditions of the agreement, there are however some basic precautions to take: * request prior to the consultation or intervention the communication of the prices which will be charged, in particular if it concerns consultations by telephone. * never pay anything in cash, unless you require the issuance of a receipt when remittance of funds or an invoice detailing the services paid for and the corresponding price. If the practitioner is reluctant to commit in writing, take the precaution…

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The agreement concluded with a Clairvoyant

When an individual intends to consult a practitioner of the divinatory arts, the relationship which is established between them constitutes a real contract under the terms of which the clairvoyant undertakes to carry out certain services in return for which he receives remuneration from his “client”. The best way to avoid any subsequent difficulties is to draw up a written agreement with the clairvoyant from the start of the contractual relationship, summarizing the services that the clairvoyant must perform and the terms of his remuneration (rates,…

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Dispute of divinatory services provided

If at the end of the day, the client intends to contest the services provided or the amount of the psychic’s remuneration, he must be able to prove: * on the one hand, what was originally agreed between the parties (i.e. what services and for what amount); * on the other hand, that the terms of the contract were not respected by the clairvoyant, either because he received more than what was agreed, or because he performed the services poorly, or even because he did not perform them at all. If, however, you have not taken these precautions and today you…

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The cost of a clairvoyance consultation

h2. Reminder It has been brought to our attention that certain practitioners, under the cover of real or hypothetical knowledge and clairvoyance, charge prohibitive fees, varying from €100 to €300, for a mediocre consultation of less than 1 hour. We remind you that if the fees are free, to our knowledge and for ethical and deontological reasons it appears that these prices are excessive and do not correspond to a real quality service, justifying such a price. All professionals are therefore advised to adjust the amount of their fees honestly. The INAD…

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Audiotels and Clairvoyance service: exploitation of indicators

Many of you have expressed to us your surprise that the INAD does not provide any information on the working conditions of clairvoyance practitioners who carry out their activity on behalf of certain employers who own audiotel services. Indeed, certain audiotels specializing in telephone clairvoyance, based in France or abroad, employ qualified or unqualified clairvoyance practitioners, for an hourly rate of €4.50, per hour generated, that is to say one actual hour of work. It being specified that hours not worked receive no remuneration. These…

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THE CORRESPONDENCE BANDITRY

“…a great danger threatens you, a person you know wants you harm…you must neutralize the evil at all costs…your life depends on it!…” Many of you have received this type of message for an… imaginary undoing ceremony. You do not have to worry but you can file a complaint against the perpetrator by contacting the Public Prosecutor of the competent court closest to your place of residence. Indeed, it is a treacherous threat. Under the pretext of coming to the aid of its recipient who has not asked for anything, it in reality constitutes a real conditional…

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a good clairvoyant or medium does not need publicity

I am posting this message as a novice medium. My gifts developed without me expecting it. I even still have trouble understanding them, I get help from an acquaintance who is a clairvoyant-medium, who has proven himself, and who has not needed to advertise, like some charlatants. Everything came from word of mouth, she does her consultations at home, in pure anonymity, which is very humble. For my part, I don’t do anything related to the future, maps, etc… And I agree with you all, when a pure medium or clairvoyant is sincere, he does not need to ask…

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