收到一个邮件，老外要给我打钱，这是怎么个骗人的方法？

邮件如下:

Dear Friend,

I am Mr.Mahmoud Abbas, the accountant personal confident to Dr. Ravindra
F. Shah who died together with his wife Dr. Mrs. Manjula Parikh-Shah
in a plane crash on the 1st Oct. 2003 on their way to attend wedding
in Boston. Dr. Ravindra F. Shah, is an American, a physician and
industrialist, he died without having any beneficiary to his assets
including his account here in Burkina Faso which he opened in one of
the Bank in the year 2000 as his personal savings for the purpose of
expansion and development of his company before his untimely death in
2003.

The amount involved is (USD 10,500,000.00) Ten Million Five
Hundred Thousand USD, no other person knows about this account, I am
contacting you for us to transfer this funds to your account as the
beneficiary,) but I don‘t know any foreigner, I am only contacting you
as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local
person here.

Reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently.

Sincerely,

Mr.Mahmoud Abbas.

Reply to this e-mail addess:mahmoud.abbas286 @yahoo .com

大概翻译一下，就是说有个外国人2003年10月1日死了，账户有钱(USD 10,500,000.00)，要打给我，洗钱。
大家帮我分析分析。我自然是不会回复了。但是这是个什么骗法。。。