{"id":1130395,"date":"2021-12-18T10:29:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1130395"},"modified":"2021-12-18T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:29:15","slug":"italian-police-seize-fake-covid-passes-in-nationwide-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/italian-police-seize-fake-covid-passes-in-nationwide-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Police Seize Fake Covid Passes in Nationwide Raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fitalian-police-seize-fake-covid-passes-in-nationwide-raids%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1130395&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1234503431-e1632346528537-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Italian State Police, on behalf of the Naples Prosecutor\u2019s Office, have conducted 40 searches and made 67 seizures of fake coronavirus health passes, identifying at least 120 buyers of the forgeries.<\/p>\n<p>The passes, which were sold online for as little as 120-200 euros (\u00a3102-170\/$135-225), were created after criminals were able to exploit weaknesses in the country\u2019s health pass system, known in Italy as the Green Pass.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilgiornale.it\/news\/cronache\/green-pass-falsi-violati-i-sistemi-6-regioni-1996110.html\">report<\/a> from the newspaper <em>Il Giornale<\/em>, the passes were created with codes available to pharmacies to generate new Green Passes. The codes had been stolen using an email phishing tactic in which criminals sent emails linking to a clone of an institutional website.<\/p>\n<p>Others are said to have used internet-based VOIP calling to mask their phone number so as to replace it with the phone number of Italian regional health institutions and have pharmacists install malicious software on their computers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.8333333333333\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fake European Coronavirus Vaccine Passport Sales Surging Online <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SF8Oe7N7kC\">https:\/\/t.co\/SF8Oe7N7kC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1466733955793571841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Investigators say they have identified at least<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adnkronos.com\/green-pass-falsi-violati-sistemi-sanitari-di-6-regioni_5eeexN6Xcx3Ok2Pqc1jh7C\"> 120 people<\/a> who have bought the forged Green Passes in Naples, Milan, Messina, Rome, Trento, and other areas. The actual number of people who have purchased the forged Green Passes is estimated to be much higher, however.<\/p>\n<p>The police searches come just weeks after an Italian man attempted to acquire a Green Pass not by ordering a forged copy, but by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/04\/italy-man-wears-false-arm-in-effort-to-sidestep-coronavirus-vaccination\/\">wearing a prosthetic arm<\/a> during his vaccination appointment in an effort to avoid actually taking the jab. The man claimed that he required the Green Pass in order to work but did not want to take the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Countries across Europe that have implemented Covid passes have also had to deal with a surge in fake and forged passes being sold online.<\/p>\n<p>In France, investigators have opened 400 cases into networks that provide fake health passes, some of which allegedly have links to healthcare professionals, according to the country\u2019s&nbsp;&nbsp;Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, the health passes of political figures have been leaked online, including France\u2019s President Emmanuel Macron. A teen in Marseilles&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/12\/teen-arrested-for-using-president-macrons-personal-vaccine-pass-qr-code\/\">was arrested<\/a> in October after using the French president\u2019s personal QR code when trying to enter a local hospital.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7777777777778\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">France Carrying Out 400 Investigations Into Networks Providing Fake Covid Passes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/65SbzgzTSV\">https:\/\/t.co\/65SbzgzTSV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1470119010385629185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at&nbsp;<span data-darkreader-inline-color><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>or email at&nbsp;ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian State Police, on behalf of the Naples Prosecutor\u2019s Office, have conducted 40 searches and made 67 seizures of fake coronavirus health passes, identifying at least 120 buyers of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}