{"id":11577,"date":"2021-09-02T14:13:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=11577"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:35:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T14:35:48","slug":"woman-prosecuted-for-selling-fake-vaccination-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/woman-prosecuted-for-selling-fake-vaccination-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Prosecuted for Selling Fake Vaccination Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A New Jersey woman was charged Tuesday with offering a false instrument, criminal possession of a forged instrument and conspiracy after she was accused of selling about 250 counterfeit vaccination cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman was charged along with her alleged co-conspirator, who was also charged with offering a false instrument and conspiracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to prosecutors, the woman, who goes by AntiVaxMomma on Instagram, sold several hundred fake COVID-19 vaccination cards at $200 each to various individuals, including people working in hospitals and nursing homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirteen other alleged card buyers have also been charged, including a man accused of paying for registration in the COVID-19 vaccination database. With the growing demands across sectors for customers to provide proof of vaccination, counterfeit vaccination cards have begun to proliferate, with cases slowing becoming more frequent.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2021\/09\/01\/1033337445\/fake-vaccination-cards-were-sold-to-health-care-workers-on-instagram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in NPR.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey woman was charged Tuesday with offering a false instrument, criminal possession of a forged instrument and conspiracy after she was accused of selling about 250 counterfeit vaccination cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11616,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions\/11616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}