Anything that comes from Nigeria should send a big SCAM ALERT in everyone's brain! Also, the emails indicating that you have won some sort of lottery in another country.
There are a lot of them. Some of the most common are "phishing" scams, where an email falsely claims to be from your bank and requests personal information for "verification. "
Beware of emails telling you that you can collect large amounts of money if you provide personal information such as your name, social security number, bank account information, etc.