Sharing this because I wish someone had warned us before this happened. We are an early stage startup and got cold emailed by someone from an investment firm called One. Stop AG (onestopag. com). They said they found us through a Web Summit startup list. We get outreach like this occasionally so it did not immediately raise alarms. We agreed to a call. It got passed to another person at the same firm who ran a 30 minute Google Meet with us. During the call their camera was off the entire time while ours was on. They said they were working remotely from the south of France while claiming their office was based in Switzerland. Background noise suggested others were nearby. They asked for our pitch deck and full business plan. We asked for a signed NDA first, which felt like the responsible move. They returned one but it was signed by someone listed as CEO of a completely different company called Amadeus Equity Capital AG, not One. Stop AG. Different company, different signatory. We should have paused there. We did not. After we sent our documents, follow-up emails bounced. Their website could not be found. Neither company appears to be real. No money was ever requested which is part of why this did not feel like a scam. It was entirely focused on extracting our business plan, financials, and roadmap. Lessons we are taking from this: * Verify any investor or firm through independent sources before sharing any documents * Treat NDA inconsistencies as a hard stop, not something to brush past * Be cautious with anyone whose camera is always off and whose story keeps shifting Has anyone else run into something like this? Would love to know if this is a wider pattern targeting startups.