Wouldn't it be more important to check first whether they have actually already reached that goal, or if they only say that they have to gain access to your money, fealty, obediance and so on? Is there a way to find this out objectively?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'