It's mostly because, as a proofreader, the painful spelling and grammar mistakes are a source of enduring entertainment for me. Also, as a web dude, I enjoy checking out these scammers attempts at e-subterfuge.

One actually made it through our Draconian spam filters at work today. And it provided me joy on both fronts.

"Reactiovation"? Seriously?

And if you're going to phish someone, don't give your link a crap address like africancity.net. At least make an effort and try to register something deceptively similar to the fake domain (vzw.com) in your return address line. Maybe vzw2.com or vzw-accounts.com. ("vzw" is Verizon Wireless, btw.)

Do I have to run a seminar in how to properly run a scam?