Email Scams that Promise to Get Rich Effortlessly!

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For the past five years, I have been receiving these kinds of emails wherein the sender was usually claiming to be the lawyer of the "deceased" family. He would tell me that he'll transfer the bank funds to my name before it was taken by the government because no family or relatives were claiming the said funds. He'll add that he exerted all the effort to locate the deceased family's possible relatives but to no avail. The lawyer would usually say that the whole family perished in an accident(the past emails I received involved plane crashes) but the email I received just this morning indicated that the family died when tsunami hit some parts of Asia way back December 26, 2004. He'd try to be more convincing by telling the huge amount of money involved, this time it was US$18 million in cash and in addition there was also a construction company. Well, it's not that I was ever interested in this kind of scams. I wouldn't be greedy enough to think of getting money from other people, I hate lying and I only want to get or earn money through legal means. Imagine, the lawyer is convincing me to pose as the next of kin so that he can transfer the funds to my bank account, as if that is convincing enough. I think even desperate people who wants to have money wouldn't believe his story, right? He'd also ask personal information including bank accounts, addresses, etc. which all the more make it obvious that it is a scam. I don't know if these people have ever succeeded in this kind of scam, I hope not. Have you had the same experience?