greed's stupidity

I received the following email in my spam inbox moments ago:

from : Yahoo/Microsoft Online Promo
reply-to : yahmicrosoft_moriscole@yahoo.co.uk
to : info@microsoft.co.uk
date : Jul 20, 2007 1:42 PM
subject : Urgent Notification **You Won**
mailed-by: bellsouth.net

Dear Winner,

Batch number......................YM09102XN
Reff number.......................YM35447XN
Winning number....................YM0988
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five hundred
thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings(£500,000.00) for the month of
July 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by Microsoft
LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE.

Microsoft & Windows Live, collects all the email addresses of
the people that are active online, among the millions
that subscribed to internet email we only select five people every
Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the
winner applying,we congratulate y ou for being one of the people
selected.

These numbers fall within your Location file, you are requested to
contact the events manager, send your winning identification numbers to
him,to enable him verify your claims.How ever you will have to fill and
submit this form to the events manager for verification & direction on
how you can claim your winning fund.

1. Full name.............. 2. Con tact Address........
3. Age.................... 4. Telephone Number.......
5. Marital Status......... 6. Sex....................
7. Next Of Kin............ 8. Zip Code...............
9. Occupation............. 10.Company................
11.State:................. 12.Country................
13.Nationality............ 14.Your Reference and Batch number are at
the top of this mail:

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name: Mr .Morris Cole
Email: yahmicrosoft_moriscole@yahoo.co.uk

Thank you and Accept my hearty congratulations once again!!!
Yours faithfully,
Elias Green.
Lottery Co-ordinator.
(Microsoft Lottery Games/Lottery Coordinator).

Yea...right... a grand prize announcement from a techy company like microsoft/yahoo... with such small sum that they don't even have the brain to send out link to security protected webforms for prize claims.

It's just a plain pain in the butt to see how far people are willing to go to make profits. Scams!

Can't these people see that there is so much more to life than just making money?