Someone be a love and claim this for me, and I'll let you keep half. It's all on the up-and-up.
There's legal footnoting and all.



VICTORY ONLINE LOTTERY
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY.
REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED KINGDOM DATA PROTECTION ACT;
(Registration MLI7410-6642).

Ref: 639/898/002
Batch: 430456543-DD23

VICTORY ONLINE LOTTERY

We are pleased to inform you that you won (1,000,000,00 Great British pounds sterling) in the 
VICTORY ONLINE LOTTERY
 
Send an email with your Reference Number 639/898/002 and Batch number 430456543-DD23. 

To file your claims, please contact our agent:

Mr.Robert Meyer.
Email:  This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Tel: +44-704-578-4433

Yours faithfully,
Maria Rodrigues.
(Online Promotion Co-ordinator)

NOTE: To avoid disqualification or double claiming, we advice that your winnings should be kept very confidential until 
your cash prize has been remitted to you. This is in accordance with section 13(1) (n) of the National Gambling Act as 
adopted in 1993 and amended on 3rd July 1996 by the constitutional assembly.

QUOTE:
we advice that your winnings should be kept very confidential

Mother Ant was sent something similar, claiming that she'd won on the Spanish lottery - without ever having bought a ticket. How very altruistic of them.

On contacting the police, she was told that this scam involves the gullible "winner" sending an advance four-figure sum to cover "administration costs", along with their bank details. Having done so and while waiting for the "winnings" to arrive, they shouldn't mention it to anyone. This last condition would never raise suspicions, of cousre, and nor would the grammatical errors (see quote).

Don't give up the day job, I'm sorry to say, but should you require further information please send me a PM and a cheque for 5,000€ to cover administration costs.

And as usual, it's an accredited national lottery using a hotmail/live address.

I should give the police that information anyway. The phone number must be registered somewhere by someone...

How lucky that the amount won was exactly one million...

I tell you what, that WOM has really changed since he won the lottery. He really thinks he's summat.

I can never understand how come these scam artists get the details down perfectly (legal references, mirrored web sites etc.) but don't have a clue about basic English. Do they think that no one will notice? Even scarier: are they right?