The covid digital certificate, better known as covid passport, begins to spread throughout Europe as an effective weapon to fight against the uncontrolled advance of contagions of covid-19. In Spain, several Autonomous Communities have requested permission to Justice to apply it. This strong interest has also attracted the attention of cybercriminals that flood social networks with counterfeit certificate offers that would make it possible to circumvent the requirement to be vaccinated.
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The phenomenon, denounced by the Civil Guard, it is not exclusive to our country. Recently, Italian agents have seized several channels and accounts of the instant messaging application Telegram in which I know They offered fake digital certificates of covid vaccination with which to travel throughout the EU.
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As in the cases detected in Spain, on these websites, the sellers offered false documentation of the digital certificate in exchange for a payment in cryptocurrencies. The certificate guaranteed full vaccination against the coronavirus by between 110 and 130 euros.
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Through its Twitter account, the Civil Guard alerts users to the risk of picar in these cheat offers since what we are doing is pay for a forgery of a public document issued by an Autonomous Community, the Ministry of Health or the European Union.
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Navarra newspaper collects this information ensuring that the sanction set in the Penal Code stipulates that “The individual who commits in a public, official or commercial document, any of the falsehoods described in paragraph 1 of article 390, will be punished with the prison terms of six months to three years and fine of six to twelve months“.
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