Texas Psychics Charged After Telling Victims a Curse Required a Corvette

They Said a Curse Was Destroying Their Love Lives

Two North Texas residents were arrested this week and charged with federal fraud after prosecutors say they spent years posing as psychics who could remove romantic curses - collecting more than $2.5 million from people who were grieving, lonely, or heartbroken and told there was only one way to save themselves.

Bridgette Doreen Evans, 47, and her partner Vinnie John Uwanawich, 44, both of Frisco, made their initial court appearances Wednesday in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas. Each faces charges of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and four individual counts of wire and mail fraud. If convicted on all counts, each faces up to 20 years in federal prison.

Targeted When Their Judgment Was ‘Clouded by Emotional Loss’

The scheme worked, according to federal prosecutors, because Evans and Uwanawich selected victims at a specific point of vulnerability. They did not approach people at random. They approached people who were already hurting.

‘These perpetrators of fortune teller fraud came into the lives of these victims at a time when their judgment was clouded by emotional loss and feelings of hopelessness,’ said Charles Neil Floyd, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, in a statement released after the arrests.

Victims were told they were suffering from romantic curses that were blocking love, causing failed relationships, or preventing them from finding connection. They were told Evans and Uwanawich had the ability to remove those curses - but that doing so required money, personal items, and increasingly larger financial transfers to fund the spiritual work.

Loans, Cash, and a Corvette

What followed, according to the federal complaint, was a years-long extraction. Some victims were persuaded to take out loans or hand over credit cards; others sent $86,000 in direct electronic payments. One victim was persuaded to purchase a Corvette for Evans outright.

The total amount prosecutors say the couple extracted from victims across the country exceeded $2.5 million. Prosecutors described the targets as emotionally isolated individuals who had sought guidance during periods of romantic loss - people who, by the time they were fully enmeshed in the scheme, had already handed over far more than they could afford.

A ‘Years-Long’ Operation

The investigation that led to the arrests was not triggered by a single complaint. Federal prosecutors described the scheme as one that had been operating for years, with victims spread across multiple states who had each been manipulated through a similar sequence of trust-building, curse-framing, and escalating financial demands.

Evans and Uwanawich were arrested this week and have not yet entered formal pleas. Their arraignment is expected in the coming days. The Eastern District of Texas has not disclosed the full timeline of the investigation or how prosecutors identified the initial victims.

The case follows a broader pattern that federal law enforcement has documented in psychic and fortune-teller fraud prosecutions: schemes that are difficult to detect because victims are frequently too embarrassed to report them, and because the manipulation is designed to feel personal and private rather than criminal.

The Question Victims Never Got to Ask

None of the victims quoted in the charging documents reported the fraud on their own. Prosecutors have not said publicly how the investigation was opened or whether additional suspects are being sought.

For the people who handed Evans a Corvette, or took out loans to fund a curse removal that was never real, the federal charges are the first public confirmation that what happened to them was a crime.

References: Texas psychic couple charged in $2.5 million curse-cleansing fraud targeting vulnerable victims