{"id":7323,"date":"2015-02-23T10:52:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T10:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/02\/23\/bogus-promises\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:21:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:21:27","slug":"bogus-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/23\/bogus-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogus Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Arrest of Scam Artist Spiritual Healer not an Isolated Incident <\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ashrifi-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nA bogus faith healer Mohammed Ashrafi convinced people he could help them win the lottery as long as they give him tens of thousands of pounds. The 50-year-old was jailed for nine years after he was convicted of 15 offences of fraud and one of blackmail. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAshrifi went under the name of Kamal-Ji and used magic tricks into order to dupe people into believing his healer status. Now many other suspects are under investigation by Leicestershire police and Trading Standards. These \u201chealers\u201d normally advertise their skills in foreign newspapers, with business cards through the letter box or left on car windshields. Their promised services include healing broken marriages, eradicating financial problems, lifting curses and even curing diseases such as cancer or HIV.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nInspector Ben Gillard, commander of the East Area Neighbourhood policing area said, \u201cI am sure there are other people out there who were either victims of this man or of similar con-men.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThose people may be reluctant to come forward to tell us what has happened to them.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cPeople like Ashrafi rely on people\u2019s reluctance to speak out because it allows them to continue exploiting people.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHe goes on to advice people to turn to organisations such as Citizen\u2019s Advice Bureau, local GPs and counselling services if they need help with money, relationship or legal problems. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nGillard stated it is, \u201cvery important that family members, friends and community leaders \u2013 people who are trusted \u2013 intervene and advise individuals against getting involved and also report these matters to the police, Crimestoppers, Trading Standards or Action Fraud.\u201d&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrest of Scam Artist Spiritual Healer not an Isolated Incident &#13; A bogus faith healer Mohammed Ashrafi convinced people he could help them win the lottery as long as they give him tens of thousands of pounds. The 50-year-old was jailed for nine years after he was convicted of 15 offences of fraud and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}