Chinese BlueChemical Company - Collection Agent

[jfcbuzz1980]

A man named Zhu Lei from the company above email me saying he saw my information on LinkedIn and wanted to know if I wanted to become a collection agent for this company.
The job is to receive checks from his clients in the US and Canada and for that I would receive 10% fee.
The company has a real website, www.chinabluechemical.com.cn and he is using that email heading for his correspondence.
On their website, the man's name is listed as an executive to this company under the management structure. He even has a picture was recently appointed in 2012 to his position.
This company looks to be real as they trade stock and their are several reports. Their however doesn't look to be any way to contact this company, by either phone or website listing for contacts.
Their does seem to be several employees on LinkedIn of this company, but I would have to upgrade my account to contact one.
Is there a way to find out it this is a scam? Sure sounds like one.

[AlanJones]

It is a definite scam. There is no legitimate reason why a company would need to pay a person 10% commission to receive cheques into their personal account and send the money on. That only happens in the minds of scammers who need an excuse to send you a fake cheque and have you send your money to them.

Any cheques you received would be fakes and the scammer is hoping that you bank them and forward them the money before the fact they are fake is discovered. Once it is discovered (which could take many weeks) the payments would be reversed, leaving you out the money you forwarded, plus any fees the bank charge. You could also face having your account closed and being reported for passing dud cheques.

I can't view the WhoIs details of the website, but it is either a totally fake website or the scammers have stolen the identity of a legitimate company. Please can you post the exact email address that the scammer is using, including the one in the Reply-to and also the scammer's email to you.

[HillBilly]

The company has a real website, http://www.chinabluechemical.com.cn and he is using that email heading for his correspondence.

hi and welcome jfcbuzz. Can you please copy and paste the entire email you were sent ( removing your personal information before posting it)? If you can reveal the complete ( full ) headers and post them along with the text of the mail, that would also be very helpful. Again, remove all of your personal information before posting the complete headers. A link at the bottom of post shows how to reveal complete headers for most email programs or web services if you don't know how to reveal them.

There are several domains that look similar to the one you posted. But the chance is good that the scammer misspelled, made a 1 look like an l, or some other masking method to obfuscate their domain making it look legitimate and impersonate another real company, like AlanJones suggested. As he stated, there is no doubt it is a fake check scam operation.

[Kenneth Brown]

I got this same email a few day ago. Any update? Is this real?

[AlanJones]

No, as I stated a couple of posts up, it is a fake cheque scam,

[vonpaso xlura]

[whois.cnnic.net.cn]
Domain Name: chinabluechemical.com.cn
ROID: 20110621s10011s16613481-cn
Domain Status: ok
Registrant ID: hc606824603-cn
Registrant: 中海石油化学股份有限公司
Registrant Contact Email: [email protected]
Sponsoring Registrar: 阿里云计算有限公司（万网）
Name Server: dns27.hichina.com
Name Server: dns28.hichina.com
Registration Time: 2011-06-21 16:49:58
Expiration Time: 2016-06-21 16:49:58
DNSSEC: unsigned

The domain no longer has an IP address or mail server.