My Mil's friend got a letter from a solicitor about 2 years ago telling her a family relative in Australia had passed away and left her some money. Everyone told her it was some sort of scam. She had to go to a solicitor in London who then explained the person who died was a very distance relative in Australia who left her business in Australia, property in Monte-Carlo and a farm in France.
It totalled up to approx. 6 million, she is now living in France and has sold everything else off.
So you never know what might happen.
Andy
Knowing my luck, I'll get a letter informing of the death of an unheard-of distant relly, with an invoice for the service and wake buffet enclosed