As vaccine mandates proliferate, the black market for counterfeit cards has boomed
A lot of people know a guy. Photo: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images One steamy night in early August, 20-year-old Henry and his friends prepared to hit the Greenwich Village bar scene, armed with fake IDs that said they were of legal drinking age. As they approached one bouncer, they produced the IDs and their vaccination cards now required for entry — and were turned away. The bouncer made it clear why: The birth dates on their IDs and vaccine cards didn’t match.
. In the city, both the unvaccinated and vaccinated under-21 variety have been procuring cards ahead of the city’s deadline to begin enforcing its mandate for patrons and employees on Monday. Supplying them is a word-of-mouth network made up of friends, co-workers, drug dealers, and unscrupulous doctors. And, at least among Gen-Z, there isn’t much by way of judgment.
What’s evidently not confusing is where and how to acquire a faux card. Dana said that she was recently out with a friend who, upon learning she wasn’t vaccinated, asked for her birthday, texted his friend, and “within a minute” supplied her with a Photoshopped QR code to mimic the state’s Excelsior Pass.
Alan and Henry’s doctors aren’t the only ones in the game. A few weeks ago, a Chicago pharmacist was charged with theft of government property after allegedly selling 125 authentic CDC cards for a sum of $1,200. Last month, 13 hospital and nursing-home workers in New York were charged by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office for allegedly possessing forged cards they bought off Instagram for $200 each.
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