For alerting them about the fraud on 1000inventions 120 INVENTORS FROM 43 COUNTRIES (e-mails: May - July 2005) Argentina • I am very grateful for your campaign against this fraudulent group. (
) I cannot avoid feeling vulnerable because (
) those (like us) who work with great effort to improve their life conditions, find themselves limited by this discouraging problem. Australia • I too was contacted by Mr Tanaka in February offering the same amount of money for my invention. He attempted to get me to send him copies of my provisional patent by email and provided me with a contract he wanted me to complete and stamp each page. I realised this was likely to be a scam and did not send him anything. Cameroon• Merci pour l'information au sujet des fraudeurs qui pré tendent être des investisseurs japonais. Canada• Thanks for standing up for us. • Thanks for the warning. I did receive emails from the person you mentioned. I ignored them. Charles St. George • Yes I got a email from this guy using a Yahoo address. I told him I am not doing business with Yahoo customer! • Yes, Fuji Tanaka also contacted me, but when I asked him to send a 10% retainer up front (
), that was the end of that! • Thank you for your posting and information regarding "Mr. Fuji Tanaka". I was also approached by this person and traced this IP address back to Lagos, Nigeria. • Je vous remercie de m'avoir fait part de cette tentative d'escroquerie (
). • Thanks for the e-mail regarding the Japanese fraud. I received this e-mail from them a couple of months back, but thaught someting was not quite right. So lucky for me I never followed through with anything. • Thank you for your warning. China • Your letter is received with thanks. • You have done a good job for us the inventors in the world! I'll continue paying attention to these events! • I have received your email, and have read through it very carefully. Thank you very much for your warning! Colombia • Thanks for the warning. I will be alert
Denmark • Thank you for your warning. I will email you if I am getting a contact that looks like what you are warning about. • Thank you for the information. • I have received the warning from you. And yes, this person has tried to make sell my inventions (
). These are very shocking news, yes indeed. Egypt • Thanks for your efforts for me and for all the others. Estonia • Thank you very much for your very important information. (
) Your Warning & Caution of course is very important for (our inventors) Finland • Thank you for your warning. France • Merci de votre avertissement. Je ne manquerai pas de m'y conformer. Germany • Thank you very much for your mail-information and that you have started a press campaign to denounce the fraudulent group. I hope that you succeed. • Thanks for the warning by email. (
) • Thank you very much for your information. I've got this offer too. But I didn't answer, because I didn't believe in it. Now I'm very glad that you wrote this letter!!! This has been very helpful to decide not to take a wrong way. • I thank you very much for your information. Greece • (
) I wish that shortly your research brings results, with the arrest of this circuit of frauds. Thank you for the briefing. • (
) I believe it was very obvious that something had to be wrong from the very first message exchange. Hong Kong • Well received your mail and many thanks for your advice. We will pay attention to this issue accordingly. • Thanks for your notice. We will inform our members accordingly. • Thanks for the information and I will certainly pay attention to this kind of email. Your consideration is appreciated. Hungary • Thank you for the indication, I think also that he is flippant. Although I answered him in a short and polite way, but I didn't think about it's importance. I wish you a good work! • I appreciate your knightly fight against the crooks misusing inventors life works. • I inform you they have tried to get in touch with me. Thank you for warning. India • Many thanks to alert about the fraud cases with the innovators. • We at RAI, thank you for the concern. • Thank you very much for the caution (
). I admit that it was my mistake not to inform you. I am sorry. Iran • Thank you for your e-mail and complete information. It's my pleasure to see your responsibility and honest activity and care to your inventors. • Thank you very much for warning. • Thank you for your kind attention. • Thank you for your warning. Ireland • Thank you for the information. (
) If there is anything I can do to help please let me know. Israël • Thanks for all your help. • Thanks for the warning!!! • Thank you for your advice. • All the members of Israeli Association of Inventors have been informed about a "Japanese inventor". I re-sent your letter again to them. • Yes, I have been contacted by Mr Tanaka (
). • Thank you very much for your efforts. Italy • Thank you very much for the information. I will advise you if I receive any email from that person. • Thank you for sending me your Alert concerning this gang of fraudulents and this Fuji Tanaka. Kuwait • Thanks (
) for this alert. Lebanon • Thank you very much for your continuous support specially your continuous warnings against possible fraud. I wish you all the best in your endeavour in helping us inventors accomplish what we are there for. Malaysia • Thank you for the warning. • I too received the offer from Fuji Tanaka (
). Morocco • Merci beaucoup d'avoir pensé à moi. Netherlands • This is the mail which I had received. I had not taken this mail seriously. • Thank you for sending me your warning about the Japanese investors. New Zealand • Many thanks for this e-mail and sterling work you have put into this problem so far. Peru • Many thanks for your information. Portugal • Thank you very much for your investigation and for showing it to all inventors. When you find more news about this subject, send them to me, please. • Thank you very much for your e-mail. I will stay alert. • Thank you for your concern. I think inventors have to be careful, same as anyone else. (
) It's a crazy world we live in! Romania • I want to thank you very much for your warning message (
). Although I realized that he is not - at the very best - a serious businessman (
) Still I want to congratulate your company for finding out about that fraudulent guy. Russia • Thank you for your attention. Yes, I have received the message with signature Fujita Tanaka. I have regarded it as a joke. I have answered also with a joke. (
) • Thank you very much for your due notice.. and attention. Thanks for your help (
). If you will give me your approval, I will resend your message to my partners/friends in the USA, who are really working with HiTech inventions. • Thank you for the warning! Yes, I had received this offer (
). You are absolutely right - This is a fraud. • Thank you for warning us regarding contracts with Mr Tanaka (
). Saudi Arabia • Thank you for writing to me (
). I would like to confirm this is exactly what happened to me, but I told I cannot deal with you without my attorney. After that, he stopped to write to me. • Yes he sent me an email several times. But I didn't give him much attention. • Thanks for your e-mail. We got the e-mail from this man and we did not answer him in any way. It was clear from him he was fraudulent person. Serbia & Montenegro • Thank you for the information. (
) I think they are very bad people. Slovakia • Thank you very much for your very interesting and important e-mail. Slovenia • (
) I (had) found out what is the problem in his case, so your e-mail just confirmed my conclusions. South Africa • Thank you very much for all your hard work. • Yes, on April 19, I received e-mail from Fujita Tanaka with a similar content as that explained in your e-mail. I thought that it is a scam and did not react to it. I just deleted this e-mail. Sweden • I was one of them They try to make business with, but I was the one who understood that something was wrong. • Thank you for the information about Fuji Tanaka. • Thank you very much for this information. I will look out. It's a great nuisance with all the fraudulent investors and advisors contacting via the internet and promising treasures. • I thank you very much for your e-mail today. Fuji Tanaka tried to get in contact with me too. The first time was about a month ago [end March] and the last time 19th April. • Thank you for your warning, I had been in contact with this person or group, but I got suspicious when (
). • Thanks for the warning! • Thanks for your warning. • (
) I think it is very clever from you to warn others in this way. Maybe there is someone who will fall into this trap. Somewhere they are going to cheat you. • (
) I have received e-mails from Japan, but I contacted the president of our invention office (
) so I've got warned by him. (
) Thank you anyway. • I got this "offer" some time ago and our company has declined this definitely. • I have been contacted by this Mr Tanaka (
). If I in any way can assist in a police investigation or in any other investigation I will gladly do so. Switzerland • Thank you for your information about Fuji Tanaka
He had already written to me. Please look at the annex. I did not write back to this person. • (
) Thank you so much for your mail. Taiwan • I have noticed the mail from you and let all my team members know the information about the "Japanese event"! We all hate such stinky people and condemn their behaving. • Thanks for your e-mail caution about fraudulent group. • Thank you for the information. It is so important to me. I'll keep my mind on this important event. Tunisia • Merci pour l'annonce que vous m'avez signalée et concernant l'antifraude Fuji Tanaka. United Kingdom • Thank for your e-mail. I did receive such information but did not reply to the advert. • Thanks for the alert (
). Yes I have been contacted by Tanaka. • Thank you for your trouble. • Thank you very much for your warning (
) and for taking the time to send it out. • Thank you for the info. I assume you have notified the Patent Offices, CIPA and other professional bodies. • Thank you so much for your important e-mail. (
). I am feeling much happier now that you have verified. This was a dangerous situation. Uruguay• Thank you very much for your today e-mail letter. (
). I spoke with many inventors and also with Mr (
Director of our Patent Office). • Thank you very much for your mail alerting about the Nigerian Scam and it's variations. USA• Thank you so much for this information. Will the fraudulent group be prosecuted to the full extend of the law? We sincerely hope so. Let us know if we can help. As in providing e-mails that this group has sent to us. • Thank you so much for your email. I knew something was wrong, but wanted to confirm that it was indeed a scam, so that I could also warn other inventors. • Thank you. I called the US Customs Service and found out it was a scam. • Thank you for alerting me about this scam. I was contacted by this group on January 20, 2005 (
). I negotiated with him for three months and at the end, I stopped (
) • Thank you for taking the time and caring enough to send out the warning to the public. It will save countless inventors money, disappointment and frustration. • That is excellent good work. Thank you Farag Moussa for all your help to us the inventors and for providing us all the security and alerts we all appreciated and also for taking us seriously. • I received an offer of this type, but decided not to pursue it as was obviously illegal. (
) • Of course, your information about the scam is already correct. My terrible experiences have only confirmed it ! • Yes, I have been contacted by Kizito Dewa (
). Of course I turned the offer down as I am not prepared to be involved with "dirty" money. • My answer was : "Any one who has trouble with my government is not a person I will do business with". • Thanks for the warning. These people contacted us in January [2005] (
) • (
) Ah the innocent inventors so ready to find someone to buy their invention. I say build it, sell it, make a name for yourself, then they will come out of the woodwork. After my second warning, she wrote : • Thanks for the warning and caution. Greatly appreciated. Venezuela• Thank you for the e-mail and the information provided.
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