How lame is this.... (scam emails)

I laughed so hard when I got an email from my agency's security office today, subject: "New Email Scam - Pay off Assassin or be Killed".

Quote:

A new extortion scam is working its way through the Agency. The scam e-mail threatens to kill the recipient if they do not pay thousands of dollars to the sender, who claims to be a hired assassin. Disturbingly, these emails may contain personal details such as an address, place of work, or a family member's name, seeming to add legitimacy to the threat. The emails are from valid yahoo or hotmail accounts. Users should not respond to the email as any interaction confirms to the spammer that they’ve reached a live account and escalates the intimidation.

From the FBI:


Jam it back in, in the dark.