The Ridiculous Fastspells.com
Trae Dorn
August 28th 2008
Website(s) Reviewed: www.fastspells.com, www.ratethecaster.com
This is Part One of an Ongoing Series on Internet Spell Casters. You May Want to Also Read Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five
TRHOnline.com runs Google Adsense ads (for those of you who never see them because of ad blockers). With the recent revival of the site's Wicca Section, I've been getting advertisements of a slightly different theme. This is, of course, to be expected. I expect things like "Amazing Tarot Readings!" to be showing up, and I am not surprised by "Cheap Psychic Readings!" either... because for better or for worse, many people (including advertisers) equate my religion with new agey things. What I didn't expect, as I was apparently far too naive, was to start getting ads for what is best described as a spell farm on my website.
 When the ad for FASTSPELLS.com came up, I was curious so I went to their page. I'm not sure what I expected, but upon arriving there, I was shocked. Let's put aside the fact that the site proclaiming to have "25 years" of experience or whatever, yet all the women pictured on the website as "casters" are model level attractive and clearly under 30. Let's put aside the hideous color scheme that makes me want to stab my eyes out.
Let's look at what they're charging for.
They're charging you for them to cast spells on your behalf.
The first thing that I looked at was, easily enough, "Love Spells." Apparently, if you believe the website, by purchasing a spell which costs from anywhere from Standard Level ($39) to Premium Level ($265!) you can get them to do a 12 hour casting of your love spell.
12 hours. For every spell. That hurts my brain.
12 hours is a long time. I've been a practicing Witch for eleven years and, honestly, I've never, ever heard of a spell taking that long. I'm sure it's possible some celebratory rituals can take that long, and even one or two castings could possibly get that intense, but the longest I've had any connection to took at longest 3 hours... and that was long. That, of course, doesn't include socializing, talking, meals... just straight working of energy. In any case, a simple spell just shouldn't take that long.
That aside though, mathematically it just is hard to work out. On their "Standard" level, they promise that the 12 hour casting will be done within three days. That's right, three days. If "Kimberly Rose" is doing the casting, as stated in their description on "Power Levels," somehow they're guaranteeing that six people don't have spells waiting at any given time. Six.
And that's if Ms. Rose doesn't sleep.
While I like to think that people aren't that gullible, I have no problem believing that seven people might be suckered into it. And then you certainly do have a problem with false advertising.
Finally, let's get into the whole "Love Spell" thing. At the bottom of the page they link to the Wikipedia disambiguation article on Wicca, which is all well and good, but clearly this isn't that Wiccan a site. Why? Because they're doing love spells. Okay, I'm going to spell this out - the primary rule of Wicca is that you harm none. A love spell, which (if it were to actually work) alters the will of the person it is being cast on. It's mind control. Now, I'm fairly certain that no casting is actually being done here, and that they're just taking people's money and doing nothing, but on the off chance ANY of what they say is true, it's a big mystical no no.
This is, on every level, a scam in my opinion.
But things get better. Or should I say... worse. At the bottom of the page, I found a link to "Ratethecaster.com" Rate the Caster is a site designed to, supposedly, Rate a Caster. Except, and this is the thing, there's no where to rate a caster. This isn't a site that allows anyone to leave feedback, but instead offers a one paragraph review for a bunch of different spell farms. Fancy that, but Fastspells.com is the number one rated site! Besides that, a quick whois on them reveals that while both were registered via Domains by Proxy (an anonymous way to register a site address) both registrations expire at the same time. Looking at the code, it really does look like they were created by the same person (or at least the same piece of software). At least at first glance, Ratethecaster.com seems to be a place for Fastspells.com to promote themselves while decrying their own competition.
Way to be.
Update: Further investigation leads me to believe Ratethecaster.com to be a total front for Fastspells.com. Besides being registered on the same day, both are hosted on the same server (detroit.securenet-server.net). This is a server owned by AceNet Inc. (http://www.ace-host.net/). It should also be mentioned that both Fastspells.com and Ratethecaster.com were registered in January of 2008. Yet, and this is the part that smacks of scam the most, the Fastspells.com website proudly proclaims that they were rated #1 by Ratethecaster.com in 2007.
A year in which neither website actually existed.
Comments:
Judging by the bountiful supply of 'how to cast a love spell' books in the bookstore this actually does not surprise me at all. I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that most people find this to be about as much of a steaming pile as I do. Sadly people do far more shocking things, and far more gullible and boneheaded things, fully within the scope of actual religious practice.
The only thing that makes these sites work is the woeful lack of understanding in the general public of wicca and paganism at large, and spooky factor of a mystical tradition. And the only thing that differentiates between the claims of this site and the claims of a host of religions, pseudo-religions, pseudosciences, and just plain superstitions is that unlike many of the above Wicca, real Wicca, doesn't actually claim to be able to do any of it. At least not in the way it is portrayed.
Love spells? Sure. I can do all sorts of thing magickal and mundane that'll bring more love my way, not the least of which is not being a lying, thieving charlatan. But make someone fall in love with me? Heck, even The Craft wasn't so bold and so dumb as to suggest that was a good idea.
Meep
My biggest problem is that they seem to prey on people... and upon further investigation, Ratethecaster.com is DEFINITELY a front for these people too. Every one they say has "success" is a site they appear to own, and all the ones they don't own they say are scams.
There is so much wrong with that. For example: "25 years" "Since 1981" would = 2006 or 2007 if the anniversary happens to land in fall.
Taking a step back, and ignoring the ENTIRE crackpot scam aspect of this, how the hell does anyone expect this to work? These people have zero connection to their customers. Sure, customers may have filled out some kind of survey, but that's nothing to work with. Online dating aside.
Juicy Details! Fastspells.com is not even a registered business located in the government database. Brittney Reynolds ( aka Kimberly Rose ) scam was based completely off google ads for exposure. Why would someone like Kimberly spend between $900 - 2,400 USD per day in advertising, while offering her services starting at a mere 39 USD?
This link shows how much she was spending daily on advertising: http://www.spyfu.com/Domain.aspx?d=4743440473731742836
This would support the evidence that Kimberly had scammed many people per day out of thousands! Ask yourself... why would Kimberly pay advertising expenses of up to 2k per day if she was not bringing in so much more?
I wouldn't doubt if Kimberly Rose was making anywhere between 8 - 12 thousand per day off her scams.
Her days are numbered. I'm just waiting to hear news of her arrest!
This site is a rip off!! I asked for a refund seeing as I was guliable and got sucked in. That was in Aug of last year. I was put off and put off now I see the site is gone! I am looking to find someone that will help me get these liers and give them back what they gave me, "Nothing"!!!!
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