Is this inheritance letter a scam?

I got a letter from spain the other day and I live in the uk.it was an unsolicited letter and was in type form.a lot of the words were spelled incorrectly.it said that he was a barrister in spain and his late client and all his family had all died in the...

tsunami.it said he found me by searching his clients last name because it was the same as mine.his name was stevens and mine is murray.however,it also said that when he had died I was his next family member,but I have no family living in spain and in the box was $7.5 million.he said that we were not allowed to get anyone one involved.it stated that if we did not reply to his letter he would carry on his search for another family member.wait,I thought I ws last one? is this all a scam ( which I think it is) or the real deal? xoxo

Absolutely this is a scam!

It's called a phishing letter. Delete it and move on.

Check out truthorfiction.com on all kinds of other things like this.

I've gotten email like that and have had more fun messing with the sender making them think they had a bite. . . Got one moron fired for setting up a spoof site on his companies server. . . . .

Yep, it is a money laundering scheme.

Dateline did an episode whereby they pretended to be an interested individual or individuals to claim this money and traveled overseas to meet up with one of these scammers. Very interesting...

If you make contact with them, they will hound you for cash money...

So always delete those types of emails.

Yes my mum and dad got a letter in the mail from Spain, from Barrister Fernando Malo Vingut, saying almost the same thing, that a relative died mysteriously and that there is 11.5 million dollars in inheritance. He even has a phone number on it to contact him on his direct line 001134625993805 and an email address, Fun mail me
He asked for passports and birth certificates to be emailed or posted to him to confirm that they are related.
I'm just glad mum doesn't have a computer and that my dad didn't post over the documents like he wanted. Even in their old age they thought they better come ask me first to check it out!
Who are these people that pray on the elderly with no regard for honesty and decency?
Lana