someone wants to send me 30% of $4.1million USD, is it a scam?

Of course it's a scam. Stop letting your greed cloud your common sense

First of all, if the person died in Japan, then you would have been contacted by a Japanese lawyer BY CERTIFIED MAIL to your home address. You would not be contacted by some scammer in Malaysia by email

Second, if you were not named in the will and no immediate family can be found, they do not just give the money to some random person with the same last name That is illegal.

No guy would ever email you his ID if it were real. And ONLY a scammer would ever ask you to send a copy of your ID

If this were at all legitimate, you would have received a certified letter in the mail to your home address and would have been invited to the lawyer's office in Japan to sign paperwork and show your passport there in front of witnesses.

Want to prove it's a scam, write back to say that it's such a coincidence but your cousin (make up any name) works at the US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Say that you have given your cousin Power of Attorney over your affairs and he would like to visit along with an Embassy lawyer to review all paperwork. If they agree that it is legit, then you will fly to Malaysia to sign the papers in person. Say that you need his law firm name, address and phone number and your cousin or the Embassy lawyer will contact him tomorrow

Then see how quickly the money disappears

Because there is no money - it's a scam to steal your identity and empty your bank account. They take your ID and make a fake ID with your details but their photo. They then ask for your bank account number for the transfer but instead of sending your money, within an hour one of their associates has walked into any branch of your bank, filled out a withdrawal slip, walked up to the window with the fake ID and emptied your account

This is such an obvious scam, I am a little surprised you even thought it worthwhile to post this on the forum.

I get so many of these things that I simply delete them without any thought.

Most regretfully, there are still many folks who are so naive that they really think these things are real. I wonder if they even bother to research articles about scams and try to educate themselves? Sigh.

Sorry to sound blunt, but you're not actually serious are you? There is no way that information like this would come through email if it were real. Its clearly a con.

His ID is probably fake and if he gets hold of yours, you will leave yourself wide open to fraud and identity theft. You could even end up getting arrested because of him so don't send him anything, just ignore the vile little rodent.

Nope, wanna go 1/2's on an Oz ?

Scam. Simple as that.

Very, very common scam.

We all get them all of the time.

Oh, yes, that's real. Send him all your money now.