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riversedge

(70,047 posts)
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 01:11 PM Sep 2021

'AntivaxMomma' Charged With Selling Fake COVID Cards To Frontline Workers

Source: Crooks and Liars




9/01/21 4:07am

Jasmine Clifford, aka @AntivaxMomma, allegedly used her Instagram account to sell forged COVID vaccine cards to 250 people, including 13 frontline workers in hospitals and nursing homes.



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Clifford began advertising the counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards through her Instagram account, which is no longer active, in May, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The cards cost $200 and buyers used CashApp or Zelle to pay for them, prosecutors said. For another $250, Clifford allegedly worked with Nadayza Barkley, a 27-year-old medical clinic employee in Patchogue, New York, to fraudulently enter at least 10 people into the New York State Immunization Information System database.

Prosecutors said Clifford, 31, sold about 250 cards via Instagram. Additional charges were also filed Monday against 15 people involved in the fake vaccination card scheme.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has called on Facebook, which owns Instagram, to do a better job of policing this kind of potentially deadly fraud.

Not surprisingly, the Zuckerberg empire claims to be on top of the matter but it didn’t remove Clifford’s account until August, The New York Times reported. But now Zuckerberg, Inc. promises to do better in the future.
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Read more: https://crooksandliars.com/2021/08/antivaxmomma-allegedly-sold-fake-covid



damn. we really do have some vile people living in the USA. And it is shameful that frontline workers would buy forged Covid vaccine cards. They deserve to be fired IMHO
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Salviati

(6,008 posts)
2. She and the people who bought them are being charged with felonies...
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 01:20 PM
Sep 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/nyregion/fake-vaccine-cards-woman-charged.html

Good. I'm tired of these saboteurs and seditionists getting off with slaps on the wrist.

Initech

(100,028 posts)
9. And the techs and nurses who are participating in this should lose their licenses.
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 01:44 PM
Sep 2021

And be banned from being within 500 feet of a hospital, they are an inherent danger to society.

thucythucy

(8,037 posts)
3. AntivaxMomma and Patchogue medical clinic employee:
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 01:22 PM
Sep 2021

considering that this is potentially life threatening to some of us, I hope the penalty will fit the alleged crime.

Someone with a compromised immune system might well be duped into entering an environment where everyone is certified to be vaccinated, only to be exposed to someone shedding potentially fatal loads of the virus.

This is on a par with selling phony chemotherapy meds or non-functioning epipens. It could cost some innocent person his or her life.

 

LiberatedUSA

(1,666 posts)
4. It takes a lot more effort to avoid getting the vaccine...
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 01:34 PM
Sep 2021

…than it does just getting it. Plus this is like sticking some tape over the check engine light.

mn9driver

(4,417 posts)
10. The scariest thing is this operation was entering false vaccine information in official databases.
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 01:50 PM
Sep 2021

These people would show up as vaccinated in a computer check.

csziggy

(34,131 posts)
13. As the Twitter video linked above asks at the end
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 03:11 PM
Sep 2021

"Why bother getting the vaccine? People are getting Covid who are fully vaccinated. I have to wonder, are they?"

If the official databases are wrong and many of those who are getting Covid spent money on fraudulent cards and data entries, I wonder how many of the "breakthrough" vaccinated cases were never vaxxed at all?

chowder66

(9,046 posts)
12. Internet "researchers" forgetting to research the law. They are so wrapped up
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 02:47 PM
Sep 2021

in going off the beaten path they lost site of reality.

Chakaconcarne

(2,429 posts)
15. COVID Vaccine cards are not well controlled.
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 04:34 PM
Sep 2021

When vaccines are shipped in their 5-6 dose vials, in boxes of 10 vials or so. Along with are ancillary kits and about 10-20 times more vaccine cards than the number of doses...

This is a huge part of the problem.

dreamland

(964 posts)
16. There is a way to get out of jail
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 05:41 PM
Sep 2021

Get vaccinated and the card will not be fake. I wonder how many will take that offer? It's just way too sensible for these idiots.

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