I seem to get a lot of these. They often feature ERRATIC capitalisation of words randomly throughout the email, which will undoubtably explain the fact that a deceased relative left a large sum of money somewhere silly.

I wrote a random scam generator one day, so try it out:

http://gian.expdev.net/scam/

Perhaps some of the more amusing examples of this phenomena could be included here?

One of these so-called "419" email scammers had his plan backfire. Scam o Rama shows the email transcripts of the dumbest criminal on the planet who was tricked into giving $3 to the person he was trying to scam!