Warning against Nomura Financial Group

Nomura Financial Group is not authorised by Finansinspektionen (the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority) and is therefore not entitled to provide financial services.

Nomura Financial Group has a website (www.nomuragrp.com) using the following address: 4-2-1 Toyo-Cho, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-0016 Japan.

Nomura Financial Group’s representatives contact investors by telephone and offer to buy their holdings in an OTC company. However, the investor must first pay a fee in advance, “Restriction Fee(s)”. This is an advance fee fraud scheme.

Read more at Restricted Securities: Removing the Restrictive Legend at http://www.sec.gov/answers/restric.htm  and Rule 144: Selling Restricted and Control Securities at http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/rule144.htm  

For further information please see www.fi.se/warning

18 March 2008