"It's one casting after another," said Montreal model Felix Bujo.

He recalled the one where Gypsies ran a bujo scam, promising to cleanse supposedly cursed money and filching it instead.

Fortune telling fraud, also called the bujo or egg curse scam, is a type of confidence trick, based on a claim of secret or occult information.

In Romany, this trick is called bujo, originally meaning simply "bag", but now meaning "a swindle involving a large amount of money from a gullible fortune-telling customer."

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She paid little mind to the repulsive Gaje disease covering her from head to toe and rooted, instead, in the depths of her skirt pocket, retrieving her bujo, her medicine bag.

In 2013, con artists running a classic bujo scam were reportedly targeting Asian immigrants in New York City, tailoring their tales of curses to fit the Chinese folk religion.