There is another pandemic underway, in addition to obviously the virus, and it is always linked to it: it is that of the false vaccination certificates, which apparently proliferate on the Internet and jeopardize the credibility of the imminent European Green Pass. To sound the alarm is CheckPoint, an Israeli company that deals with cybersecurity, and which has found that around the web, or rather on the darknet since this activity is profoundly illegal, there are now over 1.200 operators who have made the sale of false vaccination passports their business. Even on highly used apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram it is therefore possible to be vaccinated, at a cost that is not even so exorbitant: usually with a hundred euros the deal is done. And if payment tracking is the issue, then the solution is cryptocurrencies (including Bitcoin) or gift certificates from platforms such as Amazon or Steam.
According to CheckPoint, this unhealthy business has literally exploded in recent months: in October 2020 (there were no vaccines yet) there were a dozen fraudulent operators, today they increased by 500%. The "beneficiaries" of these fake vaccination certificates are divided mainly into two categories: those who have not yet been able to get vaccinated, despite wanting to do so (i.e. at the moment the youngest groups or citizens of less wealthy countries, who are behind schedule) , and the inevitable distrustful, no vax and the like who really don't intend to get the anti-Covid vaccine, but still want to feel free to move and travel. If anything, the surprise concerns the nationality of the people most interested in this illegal traffic: without wanting to fall into the usual clichés, but this time the "crafty" Italians have little to do with it, while according to CheckPoint the main applicants are the Germans, the Americans and the British.
The online sale of false vaccination certificates is also dangerous because it is quite advantageous, compared to another activity that had taken hold in recent months, especially in France and Great Britain: that of traffic directly at the airports, at a much higher figure, between 150 and 300 euros. One of these scams has already been busted by the French police at the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
