Too True To Be Good

I heard on the news a couple of months ago that the ubiquitous but unspecified "authorities" in Kenya had started cracking down on those e-mail scams where you're promised untold sums of money if you'll provide a bank account for someone in a foreign country to transfer their fortune to the U.S. Sometimes it's a Bishop somebody-or-other who's died and his family is being persecuted in a warring African nation. In one variation "it has been discovered that you're the last remaining heir" to an Anglican minister who died decades ago after having socked away his pennies in a secret bank account that has now turned into gajillions thanks to the accrued interest. I'm guessing the Kenyan wrong-doers have agreed to cut government officials in on the take, because the e-mails keep flowing in, at least one a day. The amazing thing is that there are still people out there willing to fall for it, misspellings, bad grammar, and all. But there are other ways scammers have to dupe a gullible public. We call them advertising, politics, and religion.