This spammer seems to show a lot of patience and that he/she has a lot of time on their hands. The email exposes two email addresses. shb1@mta.ca which is coming from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada. The other email address is icmcmullen@mta.ca, which is also from the same University but from a student/ alumnai, who looks like this...

http://www.mta.ca/Alumni/Coming_back/Reunion/CFA_Monologue/Charles_F__Allison_Monologue%281%29/

Season’s Greetings,

I’m Shannon, there is something important and urgent that i would like us to talk about.

Please get back to me ASAP

http://www.mta.ca
icmcmullen@mta.ca

Some emails lure you into clicking on a phishing form. This one is luring you into a correspondence. Ian with the long beard has also said in the email that he is actually Shannon. Meeting strangers is a nice experience but meeting strangers via unsolicited email is not correct.