The practice is common for traveling abroad or entering French territory: presenting a false negative PCR test to the authorities. A dangerous practice but which would be very widespread, after a year of restrictions and confinements of all kinds around the world. “The real figure, no one knows it,” explains Julien Gentile, director of the border police at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and Le Bourget at Parisian. We cannot detect counterfeits, except when they are a little crude “.
Thus, if each week, only two to three passengers are taken into custody for “use of forgery”, a growing number of other fraudsters fall through the cracks. However, they risk a lot if they get caught: up to three years in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros. Practices which will nevertheless become more and more difficult to use with the European health pass, “impossible to falsify” according to the Directorate General for Health.
Faux QR code
But who says new rule, says new opportunity for the schemers. With the arrival of the certificate, and its tamper-proof QR code, a new type of scam for false PCR tests is developing on social networks, details Le Parisien. Counterfeiters offer, for 60 euros, a false negative test on Snapchat. A particularly safe practice since the messages are erased after 24 hours on the application.
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But these tempting proposals for those who don’t have time to take a test before going abroad are in reality a scam. According to the daily, once paid by transfer, the counterfeiter asks for some personal information to produce the document before providing a QR code. A pictogram that he sends to his customers. Problem: the QR code, smaller than that provided for the health pass “is actually a code only intended for laboratory residents. It will therefore be totally unusable when the health pass is rolled out next July.
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