The police are France After several doctors reported that their health service accounts were hacked, they are investigating a series of Covid-19 vaccine certificate scams.
In the latest incident, the fraudster entered the online account of a GP near Bordeaux and obtained 55 false documents. This is one of several fake rackets under investigation. Another doctor in Marseille reported a similar hack, while others told the authorities that someone had tried to access their account.
French Health Agency An increasing number of forged certificates have been reported and the police have investigated 46 incidents since May. The counterfeiters also make false negative Covid-19 tests.
In recent weeks, several hackers have been investigated in Paris, Grenoble and Bordeaux. At the end of last month, a contract worker from the vaccine center was found to have generated 200 false QR codes and was sentenced to prison.
Two weeks ago, two women who had worked at the Bordeaux Vaccine Center were arrested and charged with selling fake certificates for 80 to 150 euros per person. They are being investigated for “fraud, profit from fraud and passive corruption”. If convicted, they will face up to three years in prison and a fine of up to 45,000 euros.
Those who buy fakes will face a fine of up to 2,000 euros.
“Falsification of health passes is very serious and severely punished. No one should cheat on vaccines,” local deputy governor Martin Guespereau told reporters.
Prosecutors believe that these codes and certificates are almost certainly intended to cater to hard-line opponents of the country that have not been vaccinated. Health Pass, this is Necessary to enter most public places, Including restaurants, theaters, cinemas, some major shopping centers and non-emergency hospital treatments.
Guespereau added that one of the arrested women insisted that her motive was not solely for economic reasons.
“She believes that people who do not want to be vaccinated have the right not to be vaccinated and continue to live a normal life without being excluded from certain places,” he said.
According to reports, at a vaccination center in Paris, a nurse was arrested while issuing a fake certificate. She allegedly told the police that she had distributed about a dozen fakes every day for a month.
According to Le Figaro, before President Emmanuel Macron stated in July that he would launch a health pass, there were 500 to 600 Internet searches for “false statements”. Within a few hours of Macron’s announcement, The researchers found This number has soared to more than 4,000.
in a FranceInfo interviewJean-Paul Harmon, general practitioner and honorary chairman of the French Federation of Physicians, admitted to issuing three certificates. However, he insisted that he only did this for two fully vaccinated patients and a third patient who recovered from Covid-19; all three were eligible for health passes but were unable to download the necessary QR codes.
“What should I do? Let these people be trapped at home if they are entitled to a health pass,” he said. “Obviously, I am not going to issue fake vaccine certificates to people I don’t know at all, and these people don’t have the slightest proof. The three people I gave the QR code to are familiar to me, and I checked their documents. They should be able to Easily get a health pass.”
