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This is not the first time that the police and the gendarmes have dismantled networks of fake health passes. But it is a huge network, at the origin of at least 62,000 false passes, which has just been discovered by the investigators.
Fake health passes. Some cybercriminals have made it their specialty. A few months ago, caregivers from Angers (Maine-et-Loire) and the Ile de Ré (Charente-Maritime) realized that their ameli professional accounts had been hacked to make thousands of false passes. The investigation made it possible to dismantle a network of forgers who allegedly usurped the identity of a dozen health professionals throughout France, such as Juliette Parmentier: “between August and November, I vaccinated 15 people but on the lists there are 1,184 names indicated”explains the liberal nurse.
On the Internet, offers, ranging from 150 to 300 euros, are multiplying. Currently, 400 investigations related to false pass trafficking are open. Sally, a 23-year-old woman, was arrested in early December: she admitted selling hundreds of fake passes. “I found a YouTube video, and then I made it for people. I could earn my minimum wage in a day”, she says. His lawyer points to negligence on the part of Health Insurance. Vaccination fraud is punishable by up to three years in prison for buyers and five for sellers.