It is no surprise that pseudoscience and rumor can lure in so many people in our time. How many people in our time cannot tell that the following two e-mails (reproduced below) are spam, and worse, attempts to get their personal information? We expect them to be able to distinguish between authentic scientific inquiry and pseudoscience marketed as the real thing? Is that realistic?
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Connection-Colonial Bank Renewal
Certificate Renewal
Personal (Smartcard) e-Cert & Personal e-Cert
Certificate owner must renew the certificate before expiry date.
Your certificate expiration date – 1may 2008.
The system will send email (Certificate Renewal Notice) to the certificate owner ten
days and 3 hours before the certificate is due to expire, if it has not been renewed.
Upon receiving the renewal notice, certificate owner is required to connect to
Colonial Bank Certificate Management System and present the client certificate.
Secure Server e-Cert & Developer e-Cert
Certificate owner has the responsibility to renew the certificate before expiry date.
Successful renewed application will receive an email notification from Colonial Bank.
Applicant can just browse to the URL stated in the email and then download the certificate.
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2003 Colonial Bank, N.A.
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Chris Mennoh
Koumassi – Abidjan,
Cote d’Ivoire.
I and my younger sister (Evelyn) are living in Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire), a West African country, but we want to come and live in your country. We need your help to receive us when we come but firstly, we need to transfer our inheritance fund and we need you to receive the money in your account for us. The money belonged to our late father, who was a Diamond dealer before his death.
We are Liberians but came with our father to Cote d’Ivoire when there was war in Liberia. Sadly, our father died from bullet wounds sustained when he was shot by criminals suspected to have been hired by his business associates while on business trip and he died in a hospital two days later. This sad event left us without parents because our mother died while delivering my younger sister in 1989. We hope you are in a good position to help us to receive this money and when we come, we will discuss how to invest it in your country.
Please for security reasons, I cannot disclose much information to you now until we hear from you and you assure us that we can have your trust. When the money is transferred, my sister and I will come to live in your country and you can assist in investing the money. Please we hope to receive your reply to our request as soon as you read this email. God bless you.
Chris Mennoh.
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