The world of the Nigerian scam is an ever-changing one - the latest ruse plays on the name of a dead African leader.
In a variation on an old theme, a man claiming to be the son of former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, is touting internationally for help to get $50million from a bank account in South Africa.
A fax, supposedly from Johnson Nyerere, says his father had used his presidency to accumulate the money, which he then deposited in South Africa.
Nyerere jnr says anyone supplying a bank account number into which the cash from South Africa could be deposited will be rewarded with $10 million.
But he slips up when he mentions his father died two years ago.
Julius Nyerere died aged 77 of leukaemia on October 14, 1999.
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