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. These scams are known as advance fee fraud.
I wrote a random scam generator one day, so try it out:
Perhaps some of the more amusing examples of this phenomena could be included here?
This is an online game where you reply to the 419 scammer and carry on a conversation of emails. The idea is to make humour at the expense of the scammer. Extra points for including names of Star Trek characters.
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!
See also the inspired works of Brad Christensen and 419 eater.
One page links to NigerianEmailScams: