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Attention, spammers: If you don't know how to write in grammatical English, maybe you shouldn't call your scam the "British National Lottery." I would have gone with "Turkmenistan Lucky Happy Draw." I admit that the signature is a nice Monty Python-esque touch, except that it should read "Mrs. Stella Amas (deceased)" and she should be played by Graham Chapman.

British National Lottery

UNITED KINGDOM

We happily announce to you the draw (#1004) of the British National Lottery online Sweepstakes International program held on 20th May 2007. It is now available for claims and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards this. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 05, 06, 17, 20, 28, 42 (Bonus 33) , which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of One Million Pounds,(One Million Pounds) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize of £ 1000,000 Million Pounds , shared amongst the(4)lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6 plus bonus. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from worldWide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.....

[Blah, blah, give us personal data so that we can steal your money or, if we're only evil by proxy, sell all your data to someone else who will steal your money.]

Good luck from me and members of staff of the British National Lottery. Yours faithfully, Mrs. Stella Amas