{"id":52108,"date":"2021-11-01T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T11:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=52108"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:35:27","slug":"experts-uncover-dark-web-sale-of-european-style-covid-certificates-for-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/experts-uncover-dark-web-sale-of-european-style-covid-certificates-for-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts uncover dark web sale of European-style COVID certificates for cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts at Kaspersky Lab <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.ru\/about\/press-releases\/2021_laboratoriya-kasperskogo-moshenniki-predlagayut-evropejskie-sertifikaty-vakcinirovannogo-v-darknete-v-srednem-za-300-dollarov\">uncovered<\/a> dark-web advertisements for the sale of European-style COVID vaccination certificates.<\/p>\n<p>The average price is $300. In some listings, payment is stated to be accepted in any cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Buyers can choose the vaccination country and the vaccine manufacturer: AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Johnson&#038;Johnson or Moderna. The scammers claim that, upon purchase, the customer&#8217;s data are entered into a database and the buyer receives a QR code.<\/p>\n<p>Experts note that these listings are mainly designed to defraud users of their money.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Coinfirm&#8217;s researchers had <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/experts-identify-a-number-of-bitcoin-addresses-whose-owners-are-selling-counterfeit-covid-certificates\">reported<\/a> the sale of counterfeit COVID certificates, stolen vaccines and forged doctor signatures for cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts at Kaspersky Lab have discovered on the dark web advertisements for the sale of European-style COVID vaccination certificates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1863,1154,477,1553],"class_list":["post-52108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coronavirus","tag-crimes","tag-darknet","tag-kaspersky-lab"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52110,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52108\/revisions\/52110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}