Vaccination Card Selfies are Giving Scammers Personal Info

Proud of your COVID-19 vaccination? That’s great! But maybe consider skipping the selfie with your vaccine card and posting it to social media.

CSU Global Criminal Justice Program Chair Michael Skiba, MBA, PhD — aka Dr. Fraud — was recently interviewed by News5 KOAA on the uptick in identity theft and other scams that stem from people posting photos of their vaccination card.

Read the full article on KOAA’s website.

In the interview, Dr. Skiba says, “The scammer will actually grab your information and they’ll take that to a level 2. That means they’ll actually follow up with either a phone call or an email and will include pieces of what was on that card. So, they’re going to maybe know you had the Pfizer vaccine, so they are going to represent themselves as a Pfizer representative, or somewhere in the email it’ll say something specific about your vaccine. What that’s going to do is it’s going to create that false sense of security … They might grab that information on that card and create a complete duplicate card which, believe it or not, there is a black market [for].”

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