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It is also acknowledged that the passports are “easy to forge” because they contain “no security features”. Another problem is the “lack of test approaches” in order to discover forgeries when creating digital vaccination certificates. For about a week now, pharmacies have been able to use a server to check whether the batch number given in the vaccination certificate has actually been issued and vaccinated.
The police can now also check batch numbers for authenticity on the internal Extrapol platform. In the meantime, police forces are “specially trained to detect forgeries,” said the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office. According to the authorities there, cases of counterfeiting are now being determined centrally in a department in Saarland.
Since the end of November, using a false vaccination certificate in a pharmacy, for example, has been threatened with a fine or up to two years’ imprisonment. There can be up to five years imprisonment for a “commercial” trade. Many state criminal investigation offices recently ran warning campaigns with references to these penalties.
The Berlin LKA pointed out that the forgeries were not only offered for sale on Telegram, but also on Whatsapp or ebay classified ads, at prices between 50 and 350 euros. Digital evidence is more expensive than the yellow paper vaccination books.
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