People are getting letters in the mail from a law firm saying that one of its clients has died and it's looking for the heir to the fortune. Sign up for our Newsletters The letter says you may be ...

Nigerian national, Okezie Bonaventure Ogbata, 36, was sentenced on Friday to 97 months in U.S. federal prison for orchestrating a $6 million transnational inheritance fraud ...

According to court documents, Ogbata and his co-conspirators sent personalized letters to elderly Americans ... to secure the bogus inheritance. The fraud ring used a network of intermediaries ...