Scam with Spam

Spam, meaning unsolicited e-mail is illegal in many countries and quite rightly.
Spam to me, though, still brings instantly to mind the famousMonty Python sketch, led by Michael Palin.
The subject of this blogpost is more serious unfortunately.
Last week I found in my Yahoo inbox two spam e-mails which, among the other stuff about increasing my sexual prowess, caught my attention.
The first was disguised as being from the National Lottery Commission in the UK, claiming that my e-mail address had won me a prize of £730,000. After a micro second of elation, the stink of a decomposing rat drifted to my nostrils. Non-UK residents like me cannot enter the National Lottery! At the end of the mail I was asked to confirm my name, address and telephone number in an e-mail to a gmail address. That rat decomposed more quickly then. I visited the National Lottery website, which I found to be full of warnings about scam e-mails. The National Lottery Commission, it said, do not advise winners by e-mail, and if they did, a branch of Her Majesty's Government would not stoop to using free e-mail, such as hotmail, gmail, yahoomail etc.
The second spam mail came from, apparently, Western Union, saying that I had won a prize of US$550,000. This one came straight to the point. Send an e-mail to receive our bank account details and then pay into it $355 and we 'll send you the winnings. This one came from a rocketmail address, not a Western Union address.
So two dead stinking rats!
I have forwarded these to the ISP, Yahoo, also to Western Union and the National Lottery Commission. Please do the same if you receive mails like this.
Who are the neanderthals out there who are taken in by spam like this?
Should we call in theInquisition?