These scams are foul and disgusting;  some creeps trying to steal money from unsuspecting and kind-hearted people...   and in some cases have succeeded...  
They should all be hung up by their short hairs for using a great thing like the net for that kind of low-life criminal behavior...   My email used to get bombarded by this kind of junk until I went on a deletion rampage...   anytime I get one of those it is immediately deleted, and over time I get very few of these now..  
 

Best thing to do is report them the minute you see it in your email because these creeps need to be stopped as much as humanly possible...   there is nothing funny about what they are doing, to me it's the same as robbing someone in an alley...  too bad they aren't prosecuted more often for this type of crime...

~>M