Scams and boondoggles: the sanitary pass in turmoil

Since July 21, there is only one for him in the news: the health pass. A battle exists in particular between those who are for and those who are against. The latter are also happy to confirm their dissatisfaction every Saturday by demonstrating in the streets of several large French cities. One thing is certain, it is that the sesame so decried is not for the moment ready to disappear. Taking advantage of this windfall, some scammers go out of their way to find new tricks.

Deja-vu health pass

A good forger always adapts in the news of the moment to find there the echo of credibility he needs to tell his story. At the moment, one of the most controversial terms in France is therefore that of ” Health Pass “. This is how we saw beautiful specimens of scams arriving against the backdrop of the object of all covetousness. The last one takes the form of an e-mail sent by the National Police who contacts you ” following an investigation of suspicion of health pass fraud “. Basically, you are suspected of having a fake pass.

Mdr it starts. It adapts quickly say so. And it takes people really for idiots that smokes me. pic.twitter.com/uFH2qIW4vq

– Max. (@MaximeHaes) September 10, 2021

To prove the contrary, you must send a screenshot of your health pass, a photo of the same document but in its paper format as well as a PDF version. In order to push the scam to the end, you are also asked to double-sided copies of your ID card and even a selfie of you holding it in your hand. All of this is of course just a nasty roundabout way of recovering your personal data and fraudulently using it, or even selling it on the darknet, as is customary.

Still, everything looks very true in this post. The email address is that of a certain Laurant Casinier and the extension “@ police-national.fr” (since blocked by Afnic) is somewhat credible (at least for a person who is not very familiar with horse on the chords of adjectives). Something to fall into the trap quite easily for someone a little gullible and anxious to prove his good faith. Be aware, however, that the national police will never contact you by email if they have any information about you to share with you. It will always be done by mail or phone (or directly to your home at 6 am if it is serious).

Odd and pass

In another register, but this time material and as our colleagues from Republican East, a septuagenarian had the bad surprise to see himself unable to validate their health pass. But why ? Hadn’t he received his obligatory doses to confirm a complete vaccination schedule? Oh yes ! And he had even gone further than that since it was not two doses that this inhabitant had received but three! However, when I arrived in a restaurant, impossible at the time of the control for the owners of the establishment to validate his pass which no longer seemed recognized. And the man to be refused entry.

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This mishap, the Minister of Health had however warned that there would be no need for it to happen, affirming that the third injection would not impact the validation of the passes. You have to believe that the right student has gone too fast for app updates AllAntiCovid who had not yet had time to adapt to the arrival of this third dose.

In all cases, the health pass is officially in place in France until November 15. What to see bloom in the meantime many other scams and hiccups.