The FBI sent us mail!

[slang]

Originally Posted by Radar

It's a spoof and they're phishing. They want to get information from you. The real FBI would call you or just show up.

It's true. If they are truly interested in something you are doing/saying they will pay you a personal visit.

[tw]

From ABC News on 7 Dec 2005

FBI: Internet-Based Attacks Unlikely
On another matter, the FBI still has no suspect in the spread of the latest version of a computer worm that began appearing last month as e-mails purporting to come from the FBI, CIA and German security services, Reigel said.

The third version of the Sober worm spread so quickly and widely that at one point the FBI was bombarded with 200,000 e-mails a minute over four days, he said. "It almost killed our system," Reigel said, before technicians developed a means to divert the messages.