9/13/2023 0 Comments Instagram and telegram logoand elsewhere really have access to databases with vaccinated people, and the ability to add in new names-that promise seems a little far-fetched. In June, a nonclinical contract employee was charged with the theft of more than 500 blank vaccine cards from the mass inoculation site in California where he worked. What’s harder to tell is if scammers in the U.S. As the April New York Times report explains, some of the black market cards are forged, but some are stolen from hospitals. The cards themselves could indeed be authentic. Posts from some of the vendors on Telegram. “I get a doctor register whatever info on the card into the CDC system so it will be as you are vaccinated,” says the vendor. (That’s nearly 200 times more expensive than cards were going for on Amazon in June, as NPR found those cards have since been removed.) The Telegram channel owner told me that the cards are authentic, writing: “We have professional and licensed doctors working with us who are deep in the game and have access to all the medical databases.” The author of another channel, “COVID19 Vaccine cards” (with 80,000 followers), indicated the same price: $100 per blank card, and $200 per registered one. I reached out to the channel owner pretending to be a buyer and figured out that the CDC vaccine card, filled in with my information, would cost $200. One of them, “Covid19 vaccine cards certificate” has more than 400,000 followers. It only took me several seconds to discover three channels-essentially, streams of information and updates that anyone can search for, and subscribe to-advertising fake vaccine records in English.
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