Chapter 2 of EDEN CAN WAIT has been posted

Chapter 2: ESI  of  EDEN CAN WAIT  has been posted online

Dear Mr. West,

We would like to offer you an opportunity to participate in a sociological research project. Should you accept this offer your participation will be well rewarded. Due to the sensitive nature of our research we ask you to keep the details of our communications as well as the fact of this offer strictly confidential. Should you disclose this information to others, this offer will be permanently rescinded.

You will receive further information upon confirmation of your interest in this opportunity.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Experimental Science Institute

I reread the message for the third time. It didn’t sound like spam. It could’ve been a scam but they were not asking for anything. The only information they would get out of my reply would be a confirmation of my email address. And, given the fact that my address had been posted on my site for everyone’s enjoyment, I wouldn’t be disclosing anything they didn’t already know.

Besides, the letter was too vague for a scam. If you want someone’s immediate attention you have to offer him a huge and juicy carrot, not some vague promise of an unspecified vegetable. The letter reeked of “whatever” attitude and was hardly designed to lure innocent victims.

In fact, it was the letter’s vagueness that was making me question its true intentions. It was simply too light on details for a legitimate job interview invitation. Unless of course, it was exactly what it claimed to be—an invitation from an organization that wanted to disclose information about itself only on a need-to-know basis.

As I sat wondering about all this, it occurred to me that I had been overlooking an important piece of information. I checked the sender’s address. EXPSCI.ORG hardly looked like a domain name for a spammer, a scammer or any kind of evil entity for that matter. It was too boring. And when you deal with something boring you can be pretty sure you deal with something real.

Not fully trusting my gut reaction, I went to the site, only to discover a page that was even more boring than its address. The site appeared to be closed for unauthorized visitors so all I could do was to stare at the organization’s logo. A black-and-white scientifically looking emblem with letters ESI in the center was staring back at me, suggesting that I should forget about the email or reply to it.

I chose the latter.

The answer came back fifteen minutes after I had sent my laconic “I am interested” response.

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