Loan Scam – edwardstone799@gmail.com

The below loan scam email was sent to an email address that exists only to catch scam emails. It has never been used to register on any site, only to communicate with scammers.

Email headers

Reply-To: edwardstone799@gmail.com
From: Edward Stone <amandasmith134747@gmail.com>
Subject: Hello
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Email body

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your response.

I represent an investment and real estate development company, a private investment and loan company with the financial capacity to finance any type of project in any business sector. We lend to companies and individual projects. In certain cases, we can also provide direct loans for Startups and Midcap companies.

Do you have any business plan or any idea on a good lucrative business sector to invest in your country which would be of benefit to the both of us? Be rest assured that we would be willing to adequately provide the required funds needed to execute any investment plan suggested by you. In moving forward, kindly forward your business plan and executive summary for our review and consideration.

I look forward to hearing from you on any investment plan.

Sincerely,

Edward Stone
Dubai, UAE

Why is this a loan scam?

• It was sent from a totally different email address to the one that you are asked to reply to.
• The email address used is a free Gmail address.
• The email was mass-mailed to many recipients using BCC.
• The email gives no indication of who is offering the loan or who they are regulated by.