Seriously, how dumb do they think we are?

So, for the last couple of days I've been getting these rather suspicious emails. And all I can think is, "How dumb do they think we are?" After the jump, text of the email and an analysis of why these con men fail at life.

Dear User: princeton.edu
princeton.edu Engineer will be conducting a scheduled routine
maintenance To improve our services, please be informed that we are going to
upgrade our system in a couple of days from now, that may affect email
delivery
notifications on our transaction network. We would need the following
information to enable us preserve your account.

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
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FULL NAME:
USER EMAIL:
USER PASSWORD:
COUNTRY:
PHONE NUMBER:

You are to forward the following informations to our helpdesk center.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you.
We assure you more quality service at the end of this maintenance.

We understand that, you need to be certain, your personal information will be
secure we take safeguarding your personal information very seriously.

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within
Four days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account
permanently.

Yours sincerely, princeton.edu Technical Support.
Thank you for using princeton.edu
Notification Code: WWP2H77JJAJ.
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So the first giveaway, and the real reason this is a particularly unimpressive attempt at phishing, is that the email address isn't even from the US.