more than 500,000 euros in turnover for sellers of fake health passes
Each flaw, each situation has its own way of profiting from it.
Since the start of the health crisis, there have always been people to get rich by reselling expired masks and even supposed miracle drugs against Covid-19.
With the arrival of the health pass, networks have been set up to organize the massive sale of false papers allowing their holders to still be able to go to restaurants, in transport or places of culture.
According to France Inter This Thursday, an extensive investigation has made it possible in recent days to undermine resellers of fake health passes in the Lyon area. About fifteen people were arrested during three operations. In total, they gave away 30,000 passes at 200 euros each. That is an illicit turnover of around 600,000 euros.
Our colleagues specify that among these resellers turned out to be a brilliant student from a computer engineering school in Lyon. His skills would allow him to hack sites to recover data and QR codes.
Most of the members of these networks would not know each other and would never have met. They operated through social media and the dark web.
The French authorities, who were conducting hundreds of investigations in parallel, promised new arrests in recent weeks across the country while the vaccine pass would live its last months of existence.
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