Oh, here's a good one...

The credulity of these scammers never ceases to amaze me. Apart from using a cheap and tacky .ca email address (for, may I point out, the UK National Lottery), they rabbit on about their "European agent".

Oh, and they use cheesy copy-and-pasted clips from the real National Lottery website. And a foul script font. Ah well. But I particularly like the warning about fraudulent emails - and warning you to send info about fraudulent emails to the Customer Care line. With a Yahoo address, of course.

With the subject line "WINNING NOTIFICATION CONGRATULATION", I present, for your enjoyment, the following abomination:

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
Ref: XYL /26510460037/05
Batch: 24/00319/IPD

Dear Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw (#1062) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on
Saturday 25 febuary 2006 ( Draw 1062).

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:

07 14 24 37 43 48 29

which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 6.

You
have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,129,901(One
million,one hundred and twenty nine thousand,nine hundred and one pound
sterlings.) in cash credited to file XYL /26510460037/05 .

This
is from a total cash prize of £5,167,604(Five million,one hundred and
sixty seven thousand,six hundred and four Pounds Sterlings.) shared
amongst the (4) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6.All
participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 unions,associatons and corporate bodies that are listed online.

All
participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 unions,associations,and corporate bodies that are listed
online. This promotion takes place weekly.

Please
note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.
In
view of this,1,129,901(One million,one hundred and twenty nine
thousand,nine hundred and one pound sterlings.) would be released to
you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For
security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Please be warned. To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent:

Overseas Claims Unit
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
NIL TREAVERS(Mr).

uknatlotto_williamsbridge@yahoo.co.ukEmail: uknational_lotteryagent1@yahoo.co.uk

Tel:+447023055535.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him. You may wish to establish
contact via e-mail with the particulars presented above citing the batch
and reference numbers to this letter.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so
desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of
confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems
associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary
measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,

Brian Hunt
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,

Warning!!!: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appear to be using National Lottery addresses, but are not from The National Lottery.PLEASE REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO: CUSTOMER CARE/COMPLAINTS DEPT:uknationallottery_customercare@yahoo.com

You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also get a prize breakdown:-

http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do