In addition to the general increase in fuel prices, we must be careful that the gas station attendant has not tampered with the pump. We explain how they do it.
Beware of scams when you refuel at the petrol station – Motori.news fuels have skyrocketed and if they were enough before 10 euro to be able to see go out a little bit the indicator of the gastoday we need at least the double. But there is another fact that you have to pay a lot to Attentioneven the gas station where you refuel could cheat you on the amount of petrol dispensed.
And if you believe it is an event weirdwe wrong. An inspection of the Watch of Financewhich he checked 905 distributors to verify its correct dispensing, well 200 They had been found tampered with.
Almost 20% of the pumps are not compliant, so it’s not that difficult it can happen to us too. We talked to a manager of a gas stationwho wants to remain anonymous, who explained to us what the tricks that many use.
Here are the tricks that some operators use to dispense less gas.
The current situation he sees price increases in every sector energetichas put everyone in crisis including the managers of petrol pumps. And here then we look for the way to to gain as much as possible, even if this goes to detriment someone else’s, namely the motorists.
Our Trusted manager he explained to us that there are various ways to do this, but basically they are 4 and methods to do the crest and now we will explain them to you in detail.
-Method 1
It is perhaps also the most classic method known, the tampering with the distributor. The manager of the pump, in league with the technical of maintenance, they will lower the percentage of petrol dispensed for every liter, and that’s it. You are convinced that you have refueled the machine with 10 litersbut the reality they have only been disbursed 9.6 liters leaving 0,4 liters in the dispenser. Consider on 10000 liters disbursed then, well 4000 liters will remain at the gas station, who with the cost of gasoline today will earn 8000€ at your expense.
-Metoto 2
In this case they are the employees of the pump to do this trick. In the orking of tip where you queue at the distributor, you have to pay particular attention to whoever supplies you. The method they use is simple when you don’t look at the pump employee does not reset the counter starting from the previous delivery.
Believe you have put 40€ but in reality the delivery started when it already scored 10€. And here is that the employee mischievous, he pocketed at the end of the day, a couple of hundred euros with this trick.
-Method 3
It is now the system less used given its ease of being discovered, that is stretch the gasoline with a percentage of exhausted oil. The problem with this technique is that, inevitably, many motorists rompevano and engines of their machines. And he triggered the checks of the control bodies, which exposed the trick.
-Method 4
Finally we have the‘black purchase of fuel. The carrier, in collaboration with some other dishonest employee, they steal gasoline modifying the loading and unloading registers. There gasoline stolen it is eventually sold to the manager, ad 1/3 of the price with a I earnfor the manager, which can exceed 40 thousand euros tax free!
Maximum Attention the next time you go to refuel, the economic difficulties we are going through, lead man to look for every way to to gain as much as possible. Even if this is at the expense of honest people.
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