Border Patrol Seize Thousands Of Fake Vaccination Cards
August 16, 2021 11:13AM EDT
PORTLAND, OR – DECEMBER 16: A healthcare worker displays a COVID-19 vaccine record card at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center on December 16, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. The first rounds of Pfizer’s vaccine were administered in Oregon on Wednesday. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
Border Patrol agents say they’ve confiscated thousands of fake COVID-19 vaccination cards shipped to the U.S. from China.
CBP officials say 121 bundles seized in Memphis contained more than 3,000 fake cards printed with the CDC logo.
It was easy to spot them as fake, however – the cards were full of errors including misspelled words and incorrect Spanish translations.
Buying or selling counterfeit vaccine cards is punishable by a fine and up to five years behind bars.
Should ‘real’ vaccine cards be harder to counterfeit? Why would someone take the risk of getting a fake one when the vaccine is free?
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