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Oil trading scams and tank storage fraud
Fake tank storage, TTT offers, forged documents and look-alike companies: how the scams work and how to check a deal.
Advance-fee fraud is common in physical oil trading. Scammers offer diesel, jet fuel or crude supposedly held in well-known storage hubs such as Rotterdam, Fujairah or Houston, then ask for fees for storage, dip tests or document checks before the product “can be released”.
Our guides explain how storage spoofing, tank-to-tank transfer offers and forged inspection documents work, and give practical checks that buyers, banks and brokers can run before any money changes hands.
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