Ask Anthony: Beware of inheritance letter scam [Video]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Did you receive a letter in the mail from what appears to be a law office in Canada?

The letter says a person has died with your same last name and left you millions of dollars in inheritance money.  It must be an uncle or cousin you never met, right?

Think again. It’s probably a scam. 

“This seems like a scam.  In my gut, I felt like this was a scam,” Diane Lemons told Anthony Austin. 

A couple of months ago, Jacksonville resident Diane Lemons received a letter in her mailbox from an attorney in Canada that a dead relative’s life insurance policy was unclaimed.  She contacted the Ask Anthony team about it. 

According to the document, she was next in line to receive the money from the policy that totaled more than $10 million. But, …