Although the certificate can be downloaded for free from the page provided by the Ministry of Health , in Plaza Santo Domingo they do it to suit the client and without checking any data. It is only necessary to give a name, age, CURP, vaccination date of each dose and the vaccine that you want to appear -Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson- or any other endorsed by some national and international authority.
In 30 minutes, a fake certificate
“What are you looking for friend? We have everything, whatever you want, the document you want”, promise the vendors who are located in the streets of República de Brasil, Belisario Domínguez and República de Cuba or in the Plaza itself.
It is enough to mention the Vaccination Certificate so that the immediate response is to ask if a simple or QR code is required.
The promise of all the so-called “coyotes” is that in a period of 10 to 30 minutes the documents will come out identical to those issued by the federal Secretary of Health, even with the QR code so that the information can be verified from a “smartphone” .
Thus, the worker takes out his phone to show the interested person an original vaccination certificate and even offers to send the PDF to an email.
If the client accepts, he is immediately directed to a building located at 414 Calle Palma Norte, one block from Plaza Santo Domingo, and on the way, the seller makes a call to contact one of the workers from the workshop. Print. The building is old and houses dozens of rooms conditioned as offices and workshops from which the smell of plastic, paint and humidity emanates.
In the office on the third floor are six young people working in a small, poorly ventilated area, none wearing a mask.
The person in charge of the workshop prints a black and white vaccination certificate, and asks the client to enter the data they want the new vaccination document to carry, the brand of the vaccine and the day on which the first and second vaccinations were given. dose, it does not matter if they are not correct.
In doing so, they ask the client to return in less than half an hour to verify data and print the final one.
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