Vaccines and fake green passes, Telegram channels seized

Fake vaccines and Green Passes sold on the dark web at a price ranging between one hundred and 130 euros.

This was discovered by the Special Privacy Protection and Technological Fraud Unit of the Guardia di Finanza which seized 10 Telegram channels through which the products were marketed and to which thousands of users had already registered.

The investigation, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor of Milan Eugenio Fusco and by the prosecutors Bianca Maria Baj Macario and Maura Ripamonti, made it possible to identify the Telegram channels through real-time monitoring of the web and the use of a series of innovative technological tools.

The channels referred to anonymous accounts on specific spaces on the dark web through which it was possible to contact the sellers and proceed with the purchase. Payment had to be made in cryptocurrencies and customers were also offered all-inclusive packages with guarantee of anonymity, shipment traceability, refrigerated packaging, certification of vaccine administration.

    The green passes for sale, the financiers ascertained, reported the false identification data of the vaccinee, the Qr Code, the number that distinguishes the batch of origin of the first and second dose of vaccine. Certificates which, according to the sellers themselves, were also delivered outside the EU and in particular in the United States, Great Britain and Switzerland.