Romance-style spiritual healer scam victim disputes resulting card charges
A cardholder describes being manipulated by someone posing as a spiritual healer into making large payments, then disputing those charges with their card issuer as fraud. This is an individual fraud/scam victim complaint, not a systemic product issue.
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