We run a lot of GP and LP screens each year. At least annually, we run into scammers who pretend to be legit LP's running the same two scams: First, the advance-fee fraud alert. The SEC defines it as: an investor "is asked to pay a fee up front — in advance of receiving any proceeds, money, stock, or warrants — in order for the deal to go through." The SEC alert specifically calls out that the upfront fee is dressed up as "a deposit, underwriting fee, processing fee, administrative fee, a commission, regulatory fee or tax, or even an incidental expense" that the fraudster "guarantees to repay later." The SEC also warns that fraudsters "direct investors to wire advance fees to escrow agents or lawyers… to lend an air of legitimacy". The second is the SEC's "Prime Bank"/bogus financing warning, which states flatly that these international "project funding" programs are fraudulent and lists the tells: promoters use "official-sounding terms such as debenture, standby letter of credit, bank guarantee… or private funding project," promise "profits of 100% or more… with little risk," reference unnamed "Tier-1" institutions / world banks / regulators, and route money through escrow accounts. ZFO's "100% capitalization, no repayment, no interest," "access to Tier-1 EPC firms, regulators, institutions," and the instant public-shell valuation uplift are the same script.