Credibility: how to determine when a claim or a source of a claim is credible enough to warrant belief. The quality of making anything believable.
> ex. Raymond James Merrill went on a website that featured "Latin Singles" which led him to finding Regina Rachid, an attractive woman who lived in San Jose dos Campos, a city in southern Brazil. Merrill sudddenly fell in love with Rachid and he took three trips to Brazil to be with her, to give her thousands of dollars in cash, and to buy her a $20,000 automobile. He refused to blame her when thousands of dollars in unexplained charges turned up on his credit card account. Turns out Rachid was more interested in Merrill's money than in his affection and when he went to Brazil for the third time to get married, he disappeared. Merrill was found in an isolated spot several miles out of town, strangled and his body burned. Rachid and two accomplices are now in jail for the crime and two accessories are under investigation. The moral of the story is, it can be a horrible mistake to let our needs and desires overwhelm our critical abilities when we are not sure with whom or with what we're dealing.
>ex. Dave received an email from Citibank notifying him that there might be a problem with his credit card account and asked him to visit the bank's website to straighten things out. Which this notices often include treats that if you fail to respond, your account may be closed. As a link was provided in the notification, Dave visited the site and was asked to confirm details of his personal information, including account numbers, Social Security number and his mother's maiden name. The website was exactly like the Citibank's original website. Dave then discovered that his card had paid for a plasma television, a home theater set and a couple of expensive car stereos, which he had not ordered or received.
- Dave was a victim of "phishing," a ploy to identify victims for identity theft and credit card fraud. Some of these phishing expeditions threaten to suspend or close the individual's account if no response is made. However, a person should give no credibility to an email that purpose to be from a bank or other company and asks for personal identifying information via email or a website.
> There are two ground for suspicion in cases dealing with crediblity.
- First ground: the claim itself. Dave should have asked himself just how likely it is that Citibank would notify him of a problem with his account by email and would ask him for his personal, identifying inforamtion.
- Second ground: The source of the claim.
Dave believed the source was legitimate.
> ex. Raymond James Merrill went on a website that featured "Latin Singles" which led him to finding Regina Rachid, an attractive woman who lived in San Jose dos Campos, a city in southern Brazil. Merrill sudddenly fell in love with Rachid and he took three trips to Brazil to be with her, to give her thousands of dollars in cash, and to buy her a $20,000 automobile. He refused to blame her when thousands of dollars in unexplained charges turned up on his credit card account. Turns out Rachid was more interested in Merrill's money than in his affection and when he went to Brazil for the third time to get married, he disappeared. Merrill was found in an isolated spot several miles out of town, strangled and his body burned. Rachid and two accomplices are now in jail for the crime and two accessories are under investigation. The moral of the story is, it can be a horrible mistake to let our needs and desires overwhelm our critical abilities when we are not sure with whom or with what we're dealing.
>ex. Dave received an email from Citibank notifying him that there might be a problem with his credit card account and asked him to visit the bank's website to straighten things out. Which this notices often include treats that if you fail to respond, your account may be closed. As a link was provided in the notification, Dave visited the site and was asked to confirm details of his personal information, including account numbers, Social Security number and his mother's maiden name. The website was exactly like the Citibank's original website. Dave then discovered that his card had paid for a plasma television, a home theater set and a couple of expensive car stereos, which he had not ordered or received.
- Dave was a victim of "phishing," a ploy to identify victims for identity theft and credit card fraud. Some of these phishing expeditions threaten to suspend or close the individual's account if no response is made. However, a person should give no credibility to an email that purpose to be from a bank or other company and asks for personal identifying information via email or a website.
> There are two ground for suspicion in cases dealing with crediblity.
- First ground: the claim itself. Dave should have asked himself just how likely it is that Citibank would notify him of a problem with his account by email and would ask him for his personal, identifying inforamtion.
- Second ground: The source of the claim.
Dave believed the source was legitimate.