Offered a lot of money? help me

Recentley I was offered some thing to good to be true. Can you tell weather this sounds legite. here is my e-mail if anyones got any ideas.
michael_kellyanne@yahoo.com.au

My name is Mr XXXX. I am a legal practitioner XXXX in XXXX.

I saw your contact and profile i decided that you could cooperate with me in this proposition.

I have a client who was deceased in November, 2001, in xxxx, xxxx.I am contacting you because you have the same surname as my

deceased client and i felt that you could help me in the distribution of funding that were left in my deceased client's bank

account. This funding is closed to be declared UN-serviceable by the bank as there were no indicated next of kin or next of

beneficiary of the funding in the bank account.

The total amount of cash in the bank account of my deceased client is US$x.x Million.

The bank had issued to me a notification to contact the next of kin of my deceased client for either to re-activate the bank

account or to make claim of beneficiary, of the funding in the bank account, with a month surcharge of 6% to be deducted as an

Escrow safe keeping fee of the bank account,so as to avoid the indefinite closure of the bank account.

My proposition to you is to seek your consent, and to present your kind self as the next-of-kin and beneficiary of my deceased

client, since you have the same last name with him.

This means that the proceeds of his bank account would be paid to you as his next of kin or the legitimate beneficiary. When

the proceeds in his bank account are paid to you, we would share the proceeds on a mutually agreed-upon percentage of 60% to me

and 40% to your kind self.

All the legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next-of-kin would be provided by me. The most important thing I would

need is your honest cooperation to in this proposition.This would be done under a legitimate arrangement that would protect you

from any breach of the law.

If this business proposition offends your moral and ethic values, do accept my sincere apology. Please contact me at once if youe

interested by replying the mail and ignore it if you are not.

Best regards,

SCAM SCAM SCAM. I get these all the time. Don't fall for it.

This article may help: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/.../nigeralrt.htm

I know for myself - or my father actually - he got a call one time from a place in California who said they had found some money belonging to his mother (who was by then deceased) and they offered to settle the money and forward it to him as her next of kin etc - and all they asked in return was a cut of the final deal - he had NO upfront expenses involved. So I looked the paperwork over and told him to go ahead and sign it - the most that could happen was they didnt have any money for him actually. They werent asking for anything from my dad nor were they asking for any banking info etc. Lo and behold a few weeks later he received a check for over 24,000.00 dollars - it turned out that some old neighbor of my grandmothers had passed away and had left a small sum to my grandmother for her kindness while the woman was ill - but my grandmother moved out of state before the woman passed away. It wasnt til almost 10 years later that they finally found my dad - so in this case daddy was glad they found him and he made the deal. The lawyers office kept like a 10 percent finders fee - but hey, if daddy had said no, then he would have gotten nothing and never have found out about the womans will.

The difference between the original posters info and your story is that you got a call from CA. His is from another country! First red flag. Believe the country is Australia or maybe an African Nation.

Oh I didnt catch that - SORRY !! Me Bad

There are heir search firms that look for heirs as in the case above. I worked briefly for one so those are legitimate. If you get this type of letter or call, I would get their contact information, etc., look them up with the State Better Business Bureau or your State's department in charge of corporations, etc. to make sure everything is on the up and up. It is very common that they get a 10% fee for finding you.