His Excellency Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Duaij bin Khalifa Al-Khalifa

If you google him, you see that

Mr. Khalifa bin Duaij Al-Khalifa is a Chairman at Bahrain Middle East Bank BSC, a Chairman at Bahrain Financial Markets Association and a President at Crown Prince Court of Abu Dhabi. He received his graduate degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from The Johns Hopkins University.

Excellent credentials.

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Our Bahreini (hmmm) sheikh also has a private office. The Sheikh's private office can organize and tailor for you a "10-day Capital Raising Roadshow with pre-qualified Investors and Strategic Partners: Ruling and Single Family Office decision-makers." and asks to contact them "For information on our Invitation-Only Events", or for a chance that yours would be one of the four startups that the sheikh personally coaches every year. And if not, the sheik's private office can always orhaznize a roadhsow for your findrasing with "prequalified investors".

Doesn't it sound a bit low for the President at Crown Prince Court of Abu Dhabi? And why the sheikh is Bahreini, Abu-Dhabu is not in Bahrein?

Well, if you're asking these questions, means you can tell Bahrein from Abu-Dhabi and probably know what sheikh means, so, you're not the target audience of the sheikh's office.

What's the secret? Just change the order of words in the name, and you get Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Duaij bin Khalifa Al-Khalifa, a virtual nobody, sharing just last name with Bahrein's ruling family (like 30% of bahreinis do):

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TheSheikhOffice.com is headed by … the same person who heads Anthony Ritossa's office: Vanessa Eriksson who received a "Masters degree in Luxury Experience" after a one-year program. This combination of words is not encountered anywjere on the World Wide Web except for Ms. Eriksson's CV.

It would appear that after five years with Mr. Ritossa, Ms. Erikssen decided to run her own private office...

But hey, even Mr. Ritossa's personal driver is highly skilled at impact investing and charitable giving according to his LinkedIn profile.


Our verdict:

scam
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