I got one like this a while back from a banker in S Africa that wanted me to help him scam the bank over an account of some guy that dies with no heirs and to contact his lawyer to allow me to claim the funds. Funny thing was I did some reasearch and found that the banker DID exist and DID work at the branch mentioned in the letter. It was a Duetchbank subsidary and checked thier site for the guys name and it was there. Man these scammers are gettin better everyday even doing reasearch to make it look good or did I miss out on $500,000????

PS I found out it was a scam by looking at the mispelling in the letter and tracing the IP address back to S. Korea. The syntax of parts of the letter were just like an oriental learning english so it all made sense after I found the IP source.