Complaint Review: Shaaxi Yanchang Petroleum Group

I was a victim of a cashier's check fraud by Shaaxi Yanchang Petroleum Group from China  & Warburg Investment Capital from Canada.

After weeks of interview and emails over the phone, the company chooses me as their representative in the United States in order to some debt restructuring work with their current vendors in Canda and United States.

They issued me a power of attorney (that looks legitimate) and a consultant agreement to be their representative and handling all businesses for the company.

I went online and all the names, emails and information provided to me check as a legitimate company doing business in China. Since my background was in investment banking related to Oil & Gas sector, it all made sense for me to be their representative.

According to the directors of the company who contacted me a guy under the name of Jun Li and Hing Lam Law, they wanted me to help them get paid for an old invoice from October 2016 for the amount of $ 364,000 from one of their clients which were Warburg Investment and Capital out of Canada.They ask for my company name and if I had a bank account associated with that company in the United States and if it was active. I send then an email confirming the name of my company and the bank but never the account number.

After 3 days a cashier's check arrived at my office from an express mail delivery service containing an envelope with a $ 289,000.00 cashier's check from the C.I.B.C. bank of Canada from Warburg Investment & Capital. The check looked 100% real ( I used to work in Banking and this check was completely real ).

I got instructions to deposit into my bank account and after the check cleared subtract my agreed commission and send them a wire for the balance. Long story short, the check never cleared and it was returned with a label of " Refer to Maker" ? Immediately I started digging further and I contacted the bank in Canada who verified for me that the check was fraudulent and that the signatures on that check were not from officials of the bank. 

Immediately I tried to contact them by phone and email, but they never answered nor they never returned my calls. I was clearly a victim of a scam - fraud by the Shaaxi Yanchang Petroleum Group and Warburg Investment & Capital.The people involved in this scam or at least the names they used were: Hing Lam Law, Jun Li, Barrister Zhong Yin and Warburg Dillion.

I immediately file a police report and contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( F.B.I.) to make my complaint about this sophisticated scam that I was a victim of.