Our office also provides a number of resources to law enforcement officials including handbooks, legal journals, conferences, and training sessions. Many of these resources, including the publications, are available on our Web site. The fax you received is an example of a scam commonly known as an advance fee fraud. Thousands of people in the U.S. and other countries have received letters, faxes, and e-mails like it. Most of these solicitations are misrepresented as affiliated with the Nigerian government or bank officials.
Some messages purport to be from Liberian officials as well.
My office frequently receives complaints regarding this scam and similar frauds. The U.S. Secret Service reports getting about 100 calls and several hundred pieces of correspondence each day about these scams. There are a wide variety of advance fee schemes. In each scam, the goal is to obtain the victim's account information or other information which can be used to defraud the victim by implying that the victim has an opportunity to take part in a very profitable business arrangement. The victim is promised a sizeable percentage of the money in exchange for the use of your bank account.