Federal law enforcement officials issued a warning about fake COVID vaccine cards flooding the United States from China.
The I-Team first reported on this growing problem last November. Now, a special alert is out from US intelligence officials.Customs and Border protection officials in Chicago showed the I-Team their plans to intercept thousands of bogus cards from China; last fall they were already stopping shipments destined for Illinois, Ohio and Texas."They are coming into those three," LaFonda Sutton-Burke answered.
Now, according to an alert obtained by ABC News, U.S. Homeland Security officials are providing new details about the threat. The new bulletin details"an uptick in seized fake blank COVID-19 vaccination cards smuggled to the United States from China." According to US intelligence, prior to the vaccine mandate last summer, there were seven seizures of bogus card shipments. From June to October, U.S. officials seized 424 packages of fake cards. The most of the card seizures were in August 2021.
Even as authorities in Chicago have been on the trail of fake COVID vaccine cards for months, national intelligence officials say they"assess that criminal actors based in China probably will export more falsely manifested COVID-19 vaccination cards into the U.S." because of public and private sector requirements for employees and students.
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