Complaint Review: Ayman Hariri Hasan Awad Milan Paradiz

I was contacted by someone pretending to be Mr. Ayman R. Hariri of Saudi Oger, a company based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (this may be a real company and person). The email came from aymanhariri.r@googlemail.com.

This "Mr. Hariri" requested to see my business proposal for a start-up venture and after a brief consideration offered to invest $35m without any due diligence. (This raised a red flag, but i thought perhaps proper dd procedures would follow).

"Hariri" then refered me to his "financial coordinator", Hasan Awad, who outlined the "investment process" in an email: I had to come to London to set up an escrow account. The email was signed "Milan Paradiz". This is where things really did not match. I googled the latter and saw a report on this site by Mike from Seattle, who was dragged into a similar scam.

Be careful and do your own due diligence on any potential investors/partners

Nick,
U.S.A.