I received one such letter last august from 'Jordi Gomez', supposedly the principal assurance manager for the industrial and commercial bank of Spain [La Caixa]. He told me that someone bearing my surname had died and had left unclaimed funds. This Jordi Gomez proposed that we split the money. All had to be done in utter confidence and I was only given an email address to reply. I live in Ireland, thought of emailing back to say I had no connexion to this deceased person, but suspecting a scam, I did not even email back. Glad I did not, that would have given him one more element about me, the scammer probably got my name and postal address on the net.