https://techmonitor.ai/leadership/workforce/fake-vaccine-passports-telegram-uk-eu

As vaccine passports come into use in the UK and Europe to help citizens return to work or leave the country, the trade in counterfeit passports for those who can’t or won’t take the vaccine is flourishing on digital black markets, a new report shows. This could undermine efforts to make workplaces Covid-19 free, endanger employees and bring the vaccine passport system itself into question.

The report by security company Check Point shows that the number of fake vaccine passports on sale online boomed in the third quarter of 2021 as the documents were rolled out in Europe, the UK and beyond. “Our researchers spotted fake certificates from all around the world, where the majority are coming from Europe, with certificate fakes of the NHS certificate, the EUDCC (EU Digital Covid Certificate), and other countries such as Greece, Netherlands, Italy, France and Switzerland,” it says. Criminals have emerged from the dark web to use popular apps such as messaging platform Telegram to advertise black market products to more possible customers.