Usually, I edit out the worst formatting errors from lottery scam e-mails like the one below. But usually, they just have a few hard line breaks. This one though, is almost hopelessly malformated. And the subject line… Which legitimate lottery agent would write PLZ BE INFORM in the subject line of a lottery notification? Of course, all the other marks are in place as well, such as an undisclosed-recipients in the mail-to field, a ridiculously large sum of money and of course the fact that they have randomly selected for a list of 50 million e-mail addresses.

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