It's really difficult trusting people you see with money, talk less someone thousands of miles away, Why don't you depend on your influential friends to fund your mining project instead of complete strangers. At least your friends would know who to hold responsible if something goes wrong.
Those who offer this to complete strangers do not trust their project will succeed, of course, they cannot ask for friends and those nearby their locations because they can track how he spends the money and they will see if the project is indeed legit and there is no loophole, on strangers they can manipulate the results and performance.
People should be very careful about offers like this because the project manager can easily vanish and do a rug pull and you cannot go after these guys because of the distance.