Theft of personal information and accounts are one hop away from the money; criminals use that information to forge credible phishing emails to get their malware installed on end-user machines and nation states may use it to track high-value targets.
"Let me be blunt: charging people $500.00 plus the costs of travel and lodging to go to a "National Tea Party Convention" run by a for profit group no one has ever heard of sounds as credible as an email from Nigeria promising me a million bucks if I fork over my bank account number.
In the meantime, suffice to say that there are code-scrambled pieces of Transnistrian email spam containing more credible and useful information than Lost in Showbiz, above whose metaphorical lintel is painted a deathless motto: CAVEAT STARGAZOR.
One thing that suggested to authorities that the threat wasn't credible, Bratton said, was that the email did not capitalize "Allah," the Arabic word for god.
I guess these emails are about as credible as the ones from exiled Nigerian diplomats -- remember those?
An unnamed official at the Department of Homeland Security told The Huffington Post via email that "there is no credible intelligence to indicate an active plot against movie theaters within the United States".
However, its use may make other scams, such as bogus emails or calls appear more credible.
This kind of fraud usually occurs online, and may be the result of so-called "phishing" emails sent by fraudsters impersonating credible institutions to steal personal or financial information via a contaminated link.
If you are signing up for a website which you are not sure is completely credible or trustworthy, you can use a disposable email address to potentially avoid getting junk mail.
During their senior year, they investigated the claims of McKinney and Serrano and found them to be credible, documenting their reporting in notes, memos and emails.
"What baffles me [is] who would have an interest in crafting a careful and highly credible mail thread and send it through an encrypted email server only to dissuade me from writing on Facebook," Raychaudhuri wrote on Facebook on Sunday.
