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Advance Fee Fraud in Oil Trading: Real Examples
PetroIntermediation TeamAnti-Scam
Three anonymized cases:
- Case A — buyer paid $35,000 for "tank inspection access" in Rotterdam. The terminal had no record of the seller.
- Case B — buyer paid $18,000 for "SBLC issuance fee" via Western Union to a Lagos address.
- Case C — buyer wired $120,000 deposit "to secure allocation". No allocation existed.
Common pattern: any payment before product verification = fraud. Run deals on petrointermediation.com where verification precedes any payment.
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