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13462251	Maria Duval Maria Duval Maria Duval (born in Milan, Italy, as Maria Carolina Gamba) is the woman at the origin of the Maria Duval psychic scam. Claiming to have psychic powers, she gained some fame before her name became associated with a vast and sophisticated mail scam. Independent psychic. First living in Callas, Var, then traveling extensively, Maria Duval" was able to build a growing reputation as a psychic throughout the 1970s and 1980s, doing consultations and horoscope newspaper columns. She did media interviews and appeared on the cover of "Vogue Paris". Old newspaper clippings she keeps in her home indicate she  brushed shoulders with celebrities, although her claim to have psychically found Brigitte Bardot's lost dog was debunked by Bardot herself. Gamba has a son, named Antoine Palfroy. Face of giant mail scam operation. In the mid-1990s, Gamba sold the rights to the name Maria Duval to a group of scammers, who used the name to sell astrology charts. The scam quickly changed form, as sick and elderly people started receiving letters promising the psychic help of "Maria Duval" for $40 per mail consultation. The scam would quickly take gigantic proportions and generate some $200 million in revenues  for the fraudsters running it. It appears only a very small portion of that money made its way to Gamba. In 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice shut down the North American arm of the “Psychic” Mail Fraud scheme. Gamba made several public appearances over the years, including a news conference in Moscow in 2008. She left Callas in the late 1990s, although retaining ownership of the property. She moved back in 2008. She was still residing there in 2018 when French police searched her home and when an investigating team from CNN visited her. According to her son, Gamba  suffered a stroke in 2010 and has been diagnosed with dementia in 2013. Maria Duval Maria Duval (born in Milan, Italy, as Maria Carolina Gamba) is the woman at the origin of the Maria Duval psychic scam. Claiming to have psychic powers, she gained some fame before her name became associated with a vast and sophisticated mail scam. Independent psychic. First living in Callas, Var, then traveling extensively, "Maria Duval" was able to build a growing reputation as a psychic throughout the 1970s and 1980s, doing consultations and horoscope newspaper columns. She did media interviews and appeared on the cover