We've all heard this since childhood. If something seems "too good to be true," it probably isn't true.
Certainly some "poor multi-millionaire" from Nigeria picking your name out of a hat as a person he can trust with his fortune (a common Internet email scam) has to be viewed with a bit of healthy skepticsm. That and a thousand other scams prove the rule. Greed and ignorance are two things on which virtually all scam artists depend.
Exceptions
Are there any exceptions. Of course. Let