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September 2, 2021, 5:47 am
Anti-vaxxers will do just about anything, it seems, to avoid getting vaccinated — including purchasing fake cards that claim the holder is all vaxxed up.
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A woman in New Jersey has been arrested after concocting a whole scheme to help anti-vaxxers slip one past their employers and any locations they want to enter requiring proof of vaccination.
Jasmine Clifford was caught selling the fake records for $200 each through her Instagram account, @AntiVaxMomma. She reportedly sold around 250 cards before an undercover police investigator caught onto her scam and successfully purchased a fake card from her himself. She has since been charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree, and conspiracy in the fifth degree.
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As if that isn’t bad enough, Clifford allegedly worked with a co-conspirator, Nadayza Barkley, who worked in a medical clinic and was able to fraudulently enter buyers’ names into an official database so records would show they were vaccinated when, in fact, they had not been. The additional service reportedly cost another $250, and at least 10 of Clifford’s customers are said to have paid for it.
According to officials, the people who were buying fake cards include frontline workers such as hospital and nursing home employees. So far, 13 of them have been charged as well, with more charges anticipated.
The fact that people are paying up to $450 to get away with refusing a free vaccine that will protect them, their loved ones, and strangers, is fairly heinous.
“We will continue to safeguard public health in New York with proactive investigations like these, but the stakes are too high to tackle fake vaccination cards with whack-a-mole prosecutions,” Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. said in a statement, as he requested Facebook and Instagram take swift action in instances where people are selling fake COVID cards on social media.
The news of Clifford’s criminal scam came on the same day as an Illinois woman was arrested in Hawaii for using a fake vaccination card to travel and avoid the state’s 10-day quarantine period.
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Chloe Mrozak drew suspicion when she listed an inaccurate hotel reservation on her travel plans, but was ultimately caught when it was realized her vaccination card said she received the “Maderna” vaxx rather than Moderna.
*First Published: September 2, 2021, 5:47 am
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