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appalachiablue

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Thu Nov 12, 2020, 11:15 PM Nov 2020

A Global Black Market For Negative Covid-19 Tests Has Emerged With Fakes Starting Around $200

Business Insider, Nov. 12, 2020.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues around the world, some people are turning to an emerging black market for fake negative test results.

In France, at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport in September, a group of seven people were arrested for selling falsified digital certificates intended to prove negative coronavirus results, the AP reported last week. The group was discovered following an investigation sparked by a traveler leaving France for Ethiopia. The traveler reportedly had a fake digital certificate that claimed they tested negative for the virus.

The group in Paris was reportedly selling the fake test results for $180 to $360 apiece. In another case, in late October, a group of travelers in Brazil was found with falsified negative test results in an attempt to enter the Fernando de Noronha island group, the AP reported. Rather than buying fake test results, the group is accused of altering their own results.

In yet another case, in the UK, several gentleman told The Lancashire Telegraph that they had doctored the results of friends' tests in order to travel. "You can simply get their negative test and change the name and birth date to your own. You also put a test date on which is within the time limit required," the unnamed man said. "You download the email, change it and then print it."

Coronavirus diagnoses and deaths continue to climb around the world, and the pandemic has seen a resurgence in recent months in North America and Europe, according to the World Health Organization. As of November 12, the virus has killed more than 1.2 million people and infected over 51 million people around the globe. - End.

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A Global Black Market For Negative Covid-19 Tests Has Emerged With Fakes Starting Around $200 (Original Post) appalachiablue Nov 2020 OP
JFC. That's borderline attempted murder. AleksS Nov 2020 #1
Wtf live love laugh Nov 2020 #2
I'm only surprised it's taken this long for such things to show up. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #3

AleksS

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1. JFC. That's borderline attempted murder.
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 11:27 PM
Nov 2020

If someone is exposed to them and dies, then it WOULD be murder.

Geez people. Getting time on the beach is not THAT important.

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