This Attempt By A Scammer To Steal Your Identity Is Simply Laughable
A reader of this blog sent me an email over the weekend that made me burst out laughing because of how laughably bad it was. Let me show you the email so that you can see for yourself:
First of all, the email that is sent from is clearly not from the FBI:
That alone should make you delete it the second that it hits your inbox. But the rest of the email should make you delete it instantly as there is no way that Kash Patel who runs the FBI is going to email you directly asking for your details to them. If this were from the FBI, they would already have your details. Which likely explains why the recipient of this email isn’t named explicitly.
What this email is attempting to do is to get people to hand over their details for use in some sort of identity theft scam. I am also guessing that it attempting to try and get someone who has fallen for a scam in the past as those people tend to be re-victimized about 40% of the time from what I’ve read. Regardless, this is pretty lame and laughable. Not as lame and laughable as this scam involving former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper from many years ago. But still lame and laughable.
Anyway, this is a bit of a laugh to start your Monday morning.
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This Attempt By A Scammer To Steal Your Identity Is Simply Laughable
A reader of this blog sent me an email over the weekend that made me burst out laughing because of how laughably bad it was. Let me show you the email so that you can see for yourself:
First of all, the email that is sent from is clearly not from the FBI:
That alone should make you delete it the second that it hits your inbox. But the rest of the email should make you delete it instantly as there is no way that Kash Patel who runs the FBI is going to email you directly asking for your details to them. If this were from the FBI, they would already have your details. Which likely explains why the recipient of this email isn’t named explicitly.
What this email is attempting to do is to get people to hand over their details for use in some sort of identity theft scam. I am also guessing that it attempting to try and get someone who has fallen for a scam in the past as those people tend to be re-victimized about 40% of the time from what I’ve read. Regardless, this is pretty lame and laughable. Not as lame and laughable as this scam involving former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper from many years ago. But still lame and laughable.
Anyway, this is a bit of a laugh to start your Monday morning.
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This entry was posted on March 2, 2026 at 9:00 am and is filed under Commentary with tags Scam. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.