The miracle cars scam was an advance fee scam run from 1997 to 2002 by two Californians, James R. Nichols and Robert Gomez. Over the scheme's four year run, more than four thousand people paid for a total of seven thousand cars that did not exist, and the pair netted more than twenty one million dollars from their victims. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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