Nigerian Scam

I wake up one morning and check my e-mail and I received on form one I did not recognize. It was from a barrister (lawyer) in Nigeria. He said he represented a client who had the same last name as mine. He had been searching for any relative of his client who died along with his immediate family in a plane crash in 2003. The timetable for his bank account for the money in was running out and he wanted to use me as a beneficiary for the money which totaled over 7 million US dollars. The law firm would keep 45% I would get 45% and 10% would go to costs and taxes. Now I was positive it was a scam but I e-mailed back saying everything sounded good and to let me know more information as well as asking in the e-mail how he got my e-mail. The next morning I received another e-mail thanking me and told me what next steps to take with a form to fill out and send the bank. Both e-mails were very well written and sounded legitimate, like the barrister had promised. He even went so far as to send two attachments, one was a passport, and the other a copy of his law degree. This really piqued my curiosity so I did a Google search putting in the names and the law firm with the city and Nigeria in the keyword section. To my shock a website came up detailing many scams coming from the region one of which was exactly the one I had been contacted about. The first thing that was said in the header was “you are smart to be weary THIS IS A SCAM