If half your brain has been removed, then yes. If you are in full control of your faculties, and are not a dribbling idiot, no, it's not real. And people wonder why these scams work when people believe that a random phone call, or text message, will drop millions of bucks on their laps. Although credited to P.T. Barnum, it was actually David Hannum: "There's a sucker born every minute".