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Dossier N° RO-2026-07Window: 7 days13 Years · OSINT

Findings
report

Scope

Online resale · RO

Confirmed cases

Facebook (groups)

Top priority

High

Summary

Monitoring confirmed 23 illicit sale offers of tobacco targeting Romania over the window. The dominant channel is the local Facebook group; recurring markers: menthol products (EU-banned) and a switch to private messaging.

Confirmed cases

High / Urgent

Menthol (EU-banned)

Coded language

1 High

14 Medium

8 Low

Publi24 · 17 cases

Facebook · 3 cases

Okazii · 2 cases

OLX · 1 cases

Highlight

Coded language detected

Sellers advertise “bomboane” (candy) — a code for cigarettes meant to evade Facebook moderation. The AI links the code to the product and keeps the case; a keyword filter alone would miss it.

Case file

Sellers pseudonymised (GDPR). Real identifiers, captures and hashes in the secured evidence log.

High

V-01Okazii████source ↗

Cartus 10 pachete de tigari mentolate

clear sale offercontraband lexiconwholesale qty (bax/cartuș/angro)

High

score 60

Medium

V-22gr. 2031295284380201████source ↗

Davidoff Gold Slim (țigări)

Davidoff Gold Slim, la cartuș dar și angro (cu ridicata). Detalii la telefon pe WhatsApp: 0784827016.

clear sale offerwholesale qty (bax/cartuș/angro)redirect to private messaging

Medium

score 45

Medium

V-04Publi24████source ↗

TIGARI - Anunturi gratuite Arges Pitesti - Publi24.ro

TIGARI - Anunturi gratuite Arges Pitesti - Publi24.ro · 35.0 lei

clear sale offerwholesale qty (bax/cartuș/angro)

Medium

score 35

Medium

V-06Publi24████source ↗

Tutun de vanzare - Publi24

Tutun de vanzare - Publi24 · 130.0 lei

clear sale offerwholesale qty (bax/cartuș/angro)

Medium

score 35

Medium

V-07Publi24████source ↗

tutun vrac - Tutun de vanzare Arad - Publi24.ro

clear sale offerwholesale qty (bax/cartuș/angro)

Medium

score 35

Medium

V-09Publi24████source ↗

tutun - Tutun de vanzare Bucuresti

clear sale offerwholesale qty (bax/cartuș/angro)

Medium

score 35

Medium

V-11Publi24████source ↗

Tutun de vanzare Cluj Cluj-Napoca - Publi24

Tutun de vanzare Cluj Cluj-Napoca - Publi24 · 130.0 lei

clear sale offerwholesale qty (bax/cartuș/angro)

Medium

score 35

Medium

V-13Publi24████source ↗

Tutun de vanzare Galati - Publi24

Tutun de vanzare Galati - Publi24 · 130.0 lei

clear sale offerwholesale qty (bax/cartuș/angro)

Medium

score 35

Medium

V-14Publi24████source ↗

tutun vrac - Tutun de vanzare Harghita - Publi24.ro

clear sale offerwholesale qty (bax/cartuș/angro)

Medium

score 35

Medium

V-18Publi24████source ↗

Tutun de vanzare Sibiu - Publi24

Tutun de vanzare Sibiu - Publi24 · 130.0 lei

clear sale offerwholesale qty (bax/cartuș/angro)

Medium

score 35

Medium

V-19Publi24████source ↗

Bax țigări Marlboro roșu lung Oradea - Servicii - Publi24.ro

Bax țigări Marlboro roșu lung Oradea - Servicii - Publi24.ro · 265.0 lei

clear sale offerwholesale qty (bax/cartuș/angro)

Medium

score 35

Medium

V-21gr. 2031295284380201████source ↗

TEREA GRECIA (rezerve tutun încălzit)

TEREA GRECIA – 180 lei cartușul · 180 lei cartușul

clear sale offerwholesale qty (bax/cartuș/angro)

Medium

score 35

Medium

V-02Okazii████source ↗

Pachet de tigari Rothmans sigilat bun de fumat

clear sale offertarget brand

Medium

score 30

Medium

V-03OLX████source ↗

Rothmans international 3 cartoane

Rothmans international 3 cartoane · 800.0 lei

clear sale offertarget brand

Medium

score 30

Medium

V-10Publi24████source ↗

Tutun de vanzare Caras-Severin - Publi24

Tutun de vanzare Caras-Severin - Publi24 · 100.0 lei

clear sale offerforeign origin

Medium

score 30

Low

V-08Publi24████source ↗

Tutun de vanzare Bistrita-Nasaud - Publi24

Tutun de vanzare Bistrita-Nasaud - Publi24 · 100.0 lei

clear sale offeroff-channel delivery/payment

Low

score 27

Low

V-12Publi24████source ↗

Tutun de vanzare Constanta - Publi24.ro

Tutun de vanzare Constanta - Publi24.ro · 100.0 lei

clear sale offeroff-channel delivery/payment

Low

score 27

Low

V-17Publi24████source ↗

Tutun de vanzare Prahova Ploiesti - Publi24.ro

clear sale offeroff-channel delivery/payment

Low

score 27

Low

V-15Publi24████source ↗

Tutun de vanzare Mures - Publi24

clear sale offer

Low

score 15

Low

V-16Publi24████source ↗

Tutun de vanzare Mures Sighisoara - Publi24

clear sale offer

Low

score 15

Low

V-20Publi24████source ↗

Tigari de foi Djarum Black Filter (10) Roman - Timp liber si sport

clear sale offer

Low

score 15

Low

V-22gr. 2031295284380201████source ↗

Davidoff Gold Slim (țigări)

Davidoff Gold Slim. Detalii la telefon: 0784827016.

clear sale offer

Low

score 15

Low

V-05Publi24████source ↗

tuburi tigari - Tutun de vanzare

tuburi tigari - Tutun de vanzare · 100.0 lei

clear sale offerforeign originoff-channel delivery/payment

Low

score 2

Evidence — field captures

Excerpts from public Facebook groups. Personal data blurred for this shared copy; raw captures & hashes live in the secured evidence log.

Redacted capture — V-22 · Facebook — Davidoff Gold Slim (țigări) — V-22 · Facebook — Davidoff Gold Slim (țigări)

Redacted capture — Facebook · group 1248519699599259 — Facebook · group 1248519699599259

Redacted capture — Facebook · group 1389349404702038 — Facebook · group 1389349404702038

Redacted capture — Facebook · group 232218952216319 — Facebook · group 232218952216319

Redacted capture — Facebook · group 644021726847358 — Facebook · group 644021726847358

Redacted capture — Facebook · group tigari.ieftine — Facebook · group tigari.ieftine

Recommendations

Escalate High / Urgent cases

Forward to BAT AIT & Legal with the evidence pack (capture, hash, custody log).

Platform takedown

Request removal from the marketplaces and from Facebook group admins.

Repeat sellers

Track identifiers and private-message redirects → network mapping (seller graph).

Coded lexicon

Add “bomboane” and variants to the detection dictionary.