The exterior of magnetized black hole mimickers can be modeled as the Schwarzschild vacuum spacetime combined with a dipole magnetic field. We show that surprisingly, such magnetized mimickers can demonstrate strong signatures as a result of charged particle motion. For arbitrary values of magnetic repulsion, bound and curled near-equatorial trajectories are allowed inside the photon sphere at $r/M=3$. Furthermore, high-energy particles can be magnetically repulsed in the region $2.32<r/M<2.45$. On the other hand, a very fine tuning of the magnetic repulsion and particle motion constants is necessary for motion in off-equatorial belts or tori at $r/M<3$. The particle motion is demonstrated for the case of the sole Lorentz force and with the inclusion of the radiative backreaction force.

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• General relativity
• Astrophysical electromagnetic fields