Rotterdam Blacklist via FERM

Any petroleum sales and purchase agreement that requires any upfront payment by so called buyers should be taken with caution. This includes payments like document endorsement, tank farm access fees, tank storage extension fees. Agreements with logistics companies and petroleum sellers that require any payment for Authorization to Verify (ATV) storage capacity, and/or Dip Test Authorization (DTA) including endorsements from the Port of Rotterdam Authority (by request or requirement) should be considered as wrong by definition . These are often used as methods in fake transactions or scams that may put your money at risk.

In addition there should always be copies of an official Quality and Quantity inspection company report. This should be from official inspection companies who work in the port of Rotterdam like SGS or Intertek accompanied with an injection report from the storage company.

If the above documents are not provided then the transaction may not be legal and is a red flag for a potential scam.

Companies that operate in the Port of Rotterdam are assigned a Chamber of Commerce number and chamber of commerce registration. If your purported logistics company does not provide information on their registration documented with these organizations when engaging in a business relationship, then your logistics company is not legally registered to conduct business in Rotterdam.

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If you have spotted an incorrect website or have any other tips or insights, please contact us at storagespoofing@ferm-rotterdam.nl

Storage Spoofing Blacklist

In our series on Storage Spoofing, we highlight this form of cybercrime to raise awareness in the port area. All articles in this section can be found in the Storage Spoofing menu, in both Dutch and English. If you are not yet familiar with this form of fraud, read the first article in the series.

Please note that we cannot investigate individual cases ourselves, nor can we provide assistance in ongoing cases. However, if you need help finding out whether a deal offered is suspicious or to share an incident of fraud, we work together with TCT, which has set up a department for Enhanced Due Diligence Solutions. You can read more about it here .

Proactive prevention

Our main objective is proactive prevention. That is why, in addition to our informative articles, we have created a blacklist on the page below: an overview of websites that are involved in storage spoofing. These websites are unreliable and often based on existing companies in the port area. In some cases, (parts of) company or brand names of legitimate entities have been falsely taken over.

It is not our intention to harm legitimate companies whose brand name has been taken, but it is necessary to share both the name and URL of fake websites to enable effective prevention. For example, Petrobras BV, a legitimate company, is listed below because http:// petrobrasbv .com* is not an official Petrobras website. In addition, tank storage is not part of Petrobras' activities and its official website is http://www.petrobras.com.br/pt/ .

All websites on this page are out to scam companies and entrepreneurs.

*Please note : We have chopped all URLs into pieces to prevent links to these sites and to prevent them from ranking in Google. If you want to check out any of the sites on this list, copy/paste the URL and remove the extra spaces.
Finally, this list is intended as a tool to help you avoid bad websites (if you are approached from one of these domains, do not do business with them!), but FERM is not actively working on taking these domains offline. If you want to do something about it yourself because your company name or data is being misused, read here how to deal with it.

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