Japanese foot scam

More than 1,000 former followers of religious organisation Hono Hana Sanpogyo (known as Heavenly Energy) have launched lawsuits, alleging they were tricked out of money by (dire) future predictions based on examination of the soles of their feet. Group training manuals seem to back their allegations of indiscriminate prediction of cancer and other ills, which could be averted by large donations.