Hackers stealing your identity- a conspiracy theory-can it be done?

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Can this be done.? I posted the discussion "are people really that stupid " earlier and reading through the replies, a thought came to my mind. What if all this scam meassages about you inheriting millions or some african princess needs your help and will reward you or the bank manager of the off shore account just need to borrow your bank account to facilitate a transaction and will give you few million comission just using your account etc etc. My line of thought is this., intentionally send out emails with outrageous claims such as the above and then sit back and wait for responses.Main intention is actually not hope for some sucker to take the bait and get scammed, which of course is more than welcomed. another angle of these meassges is to see whether there will be responses from disbelieving recipients, outraged by the blatant transparent "lie" or even mail trying to scam the scammers. The sinister intent is actually to hack into the senders PC by introducing some malware or spyware, just have to figure out a clever wat to convince the sender to maybe download a file or get them to go to a link or evn by virtue of them replying, the hackers can attempt to insert mal ware in the email itself,if the recipient responded the way they wanted. Please ,dont misunderstand ,i am not saying ,it is what they are doing,just wondering whether thigs like this can be done? I am sure there are Mylotters who know a thing or two, about computer hacking and understand how stealing personal info is done , like credit card details.. getting passwords to user's pay processors or online bank accounts etc... What do you giuys think , is my "cospiracy theory" doable ? Has any of you Mylotters responded before to these type of emails out of curiousity just to see what will happen next,if that is so,were you asked to download some file or something...for sure ther is no way you will send them any "processing fee".