A hundred billion black market, the gray industrial chain behind discounted fuel cards!

Do you often see women in vests next to gas stations when you refuel, either setting up a simple stall or asking you if you want a discounted fuel card while you wait in line?

Anyway, you need to refuel, and the gimmick of "5% off fuel discount" sounds appealing; by adding 500, you can save 25. These women carry some anonymous fuel cards. Drivers only need to perform a simple operation to obtain the fuel card password and enjoy these "discounts."

These "benefits" actually hide a massive gray industrial chain for cashing out fuel cards. Due to the anonymous nature and easy circulation of fuel cards, the amount involved in issuing false invoices and tax evasion can reach hundreds of billions, not to mention the terrifying figures related to money laundering from telecom fraud.

How do such illegal activities form? What methods are used to evade taxes? Here’s a glimpse of the iceberg revealed by the official disclosures from the petroleum and petrochemical sectors.

The gray industrial chain of "false invoicing and tax evasion + cashing out" consists of three parties: the payer (enterprise), the operator (card dealers/intermediaries), and the end user (the drivers refueling).

Initially, enterprises purchase fuel cards in bulk. For example, a company spends 1 million yuan to buy fuel cards worth 1 million yuan from a gas station, which issues a sales invoice for the prepaid card worth 1 million yuan.

Then, they separate the invoice from the goods, allowing illegal enterprises to evade taxes. The company records this 1 million yuan invoice as transportation or operating costs because the prepaid card cost invoice cannot be used as a deduction certificate. This requires cooperation between the enterprise and the oil company to fabricate a transportation business chain, turning the 1 million yuan spent on cards into transportation fees or operating costs through false invoicing.

The enterprise then sells the physical fuel card to card dealers for 950,000 yuan (5% discount), and the card dealer resells it to drivers for 960,000 yuan (4% discount), making a profit of 10,000 yuan.

In the end, the enterprise successfully cashes out 1 million yuan of company funds into 950,000 yuan in cash, completing the "public to private" transfer and evading taxes.

Throughout the process, all three parties get what they need, and the invoices seem complete, but they actually constitute "invoice-goods separation" and "false invoicing," severely harming national tax revenue and public interest. This tax evasion situation essentially disconnects the "invoice flow, goods flow, and funds flow," existing in the industry for many years, with two key links at its core, and the policy boundaries are very clear.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

If fuel cards are purchased without real-name registration, it facilitates the circulation and resale by criminals, cutting off the possibility of regulatory tracking and giving rise to other black and gray industries.

The money laundering schemes using fuel cards can be traced back to before 2000, but 25 years later, low-priced fuel cards are still rampant on the internet and remain one of the main money laundering tactics for black market teams. Do you know how many tricks are involved with these low-priced fuel cards?

The first is the original intention behind the development of low-priced fuel card projects. Money laundering is different from what many people imagine; these fuel cards are not purchased with dirty money by telecom fraud or other black market teams. Instead, they trick victims into using their own money to buy these Sinopec or PetroChina fuel cards at face value, then send the card or card password to the fraudsters.

Then, these black market operators sell the fuel cards at extremely low prices to intermediaries involved in profit-sharing and money laundering, especially for first-hand fuel cards, where the price can be halved, reaching a discount of 50%. The intermediaries then resell these ultra-low-priced fuel cards at around a 10% discount.

Through this process, the intermediaries using fuel cards for money laundering can achieve about 50% super high profits.

Of course, there are also second-hand and third-hand channels for cashing out, but the profits are much lower, perhaps only 3 to 5 percentage points.

Why do some people believe it? Because there are indeed articles at the beginning that endorse tax evasion cases. You see, the same fuel card project? Some people do it in a slightly "more legitimate" way (with lower profits), while others engage in black market activities (with exorbitant profits). This principle applies to any project.

Of course, the prison sentences are different…

Then, when everyone learns that these low-priced fuel cards can be used for money laundering, the scams surrounding low-priced fuel cards are born. Contrary to what many imagine, many people know that a certain project is illegal but still choose to break the law. Thus, some people deliberately design scams under the guise of low-priced fuel cards, and the scam is simple: they claim to have a large number of fuel cards at ultra-low prices, which will attract countless people.

There are also many tricks, such as asking you to exchange U for low-priced fuel cards. Sometimes, the cards they initially send you are real, but when you invest a large amount of money, the other party has already disappeared.

The most basic scam is simply to take your money; you won't be able to find them, and you can only consider yourself unlucky. There was also a funding scheme based on low-priced fuel cards a few years ago, where the operator would acquire a batch of fuel cards, which might have been bought at full price, but they would imply that they were purchased at extremely low prices through certain channels, allowing you to use them yourself or act as an agent.

Of course, different agents would have different discounts, but the agent fees would also vary, allowing a small number of fuel cards to leverage a massive wealth cake.

In summary, the source of low-priced fuel cards is mostly black cards purchased with dirty money. Once you purchase, use, or resell them, you may be suspected of concealing or hiding criminal proceeds, and not only will the money spent be legally reclaimed, but you may also face fines, detention, or even criminal liability. Don't let small gains lead to big losses.

The so-called low-priced fuel cards are purely a scam, aimed at deceiving the renminbi in your pocket.

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