Don't fall for it. It's a variation on "I've won a lottery, but I'm here illegally, so if you give me $2,000 to show good faith, I'll let you cash the ticket and split $2 million." No attorney would contact you through the Internet, and no attorney would just pull a name out of a hat to give a dead client's money to -- he would file the forms to put it into a trust fund until the rightful heir was found. Please don't respond to that e-mail. You will be robbed blind. Unfortunately, you probably can't do anything to stop these bozos because they all use anonymous re-mailers (courtesy of the couple of dozen techno-jerks who hide behind the First Amendment while helping con artists rip off people).