The miracle cars scam was an advance fee fraud that ran from 1997 to 2002. It was one of the largest advance fee frauds in world history, as well as the largest automobile fraud in American history. In its run of just over four years, over 4,000 people bought 7,000 cars that did not actually exist, losing over $21 million.
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Famous quotes containing the words miracle and/or cars:
“The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.”
—Ernest Gellner (b. 1925)