Legal Question in Business Law in Nigeria

inheriting money
i have been getting these e-mail from a lawyer name eric thompson from nigeria and he says he works in the u.s he tells me his from maryland.he told and sent as well as a bank there that he and me have to splet the sum of 14.7 millon usd and that i have to pay a fee of 3,540 in usd to get the money that is a inherintance and i told him that i dont got the money i was told that if i did not meet a dead line that i would lose it but is these true does it sound fake and if so i have legal documnet from him saying these is my money i have got 5 peice of mail from him and these bank please help me

Asked on 11/27/06, 3:44 pm

Patrick Tracy Patrick J. Tracy, Esq, P.E.,

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Re: inheriting money

This is known as the Nigerian Hustle. Have no further contact with him. You are being scammed.

Answered on 11/27/06, 4:02 pm

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