Jay Leno gets quite a kick out of the stupidity of common criminals, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen him highlight anything gotten in e-mail or over the internet in any fashion.

I received this, which I could not help but laugh at immediately.

Windows Live Hotmail Account Security Measures

Dear User,
We are sorry to inform you that we care currently working on securing our server. During this process, an account that is not manually verified by us will be deleted, Please confirm that you have an account and submit your information for manual verification by one of our customer care representatives

Information that is be to provided is below:
User Name:
UserID:
Password:
Date Of Birth:
Country (At Signup):

Upon confirmation of the information from you, we will manually verify your yahoo account and, thereby, prevent it from being deleted, We are sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.
Account owner “who” refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

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Yes, I absolutely will be complying with this very official request. After all, don’t you just know that Microsoft and Yahoo validate each others users so as to remain completely impartial in the process?

This can’t even be reported as phishing, it’s just not that clever. I am thinking about writing back with the message ‘Delete my account, please’.