Sometimes those offers that are too good to be true...are true

Like anyone with an e-mail account, I get plenty of messages promising me unclaimed inheritance money belonging to someone else, six-figure a month jobs, and "can't lose" investment opportunities.

Too good to be true. Because they are not.

This offer was true, as AP reports:

A Roman Catholic priest from Killdeer (North Dakota) believed his invitation to meet with Pope Benedict XVI at the White House was a hoax.

The Rev. James Shea said he got an e-mail invitation on April Fool's Day and deleted it.

"I put it in the same place I put all the e-mails with special offers for Viagra," Shea said.

He thought nothing of it until a follow-up contact.

Father Shea has knew the pontiff when he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.

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