This evening I received an email claiming to be “FROM THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI)”.  Here’s the text:

ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONITORY CRIMES DIVISION
FBI HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON, D.C.
J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535-0001
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI.WASHINGTON DC.

http://www.fbi.gov

PAYMENT CONFIRMATION ON HOLD

This is to notify you that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Washington D.C through our Global intelligence monitoring network has intercepted a fund transfer worth millions of United States Dollars with the Bank of America. The fund transfer was made to your favour from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for final credit to your nominated bank account via the Bank of America.

The payment is presently placed (ON HOLD) with the Bank of America by the Federal bureau of Investigation (FBI) due to lack of DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY CLEARANCE covering the fund from the country of fund origin. For this reason, you are required to contact the Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with the following contact details for the DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY CLEARANCE covering the fund transfer.

NAME: Chief Mrs. Farida Mzamber Waziri (AIG rtd.)
Executive Chairman, EFCC
TEL NO: +234-806-024-8605
EMAIL: www.efcc_nigeria.org@live.com

The above authorized Government agency will issue you the DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY SEAL OF TRANSFER covering your fund with the Bank of America to disassociate your fund in connection with illicit drug trafficking, money laundering or funding of terrorism. As soon as you secure the DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY CLEARANCE covering your fund and copy made available to us, we shall instruct the Bank of America to further the final credit of your fund to your nominated bank account within 24 hours of the above clearance.
Note: Failure to abide by this laid down instruction, we shall consider your fund to be acquired through illicit drug trafficking in connection to the funding of terrorism/money laundering and you shall be prosecuted by law on the above count charges.

Confirm the receipt of this email for record purposes.
Faithfully Your’s,
ROBERT MUELLER
DIRECTOR, WASHINGTON DC FBI.

See that? The Director of the FBI is personally contacting me to warn that failure to provide personal information to some guy in Nigeria will result in my prosecution for “illicit drug trafficking in connection to the funding of terrorism/money laundering”. Clearly I should send my personal information to this man that doesn’t seem to know my name and is sending it from “fbiusgov2008@poczta.onet.eu”. Nothing phishy about that at all.

I’d ask how stupid this spammer thinks people are, but he’s bound to get a response from some moron.