Need a vaccine passport but don’t want a shot? It’s easy to forge one — but here’s why that’s a bad idea

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Not everyone wants to get vaccinated. Combine that with a desire to keep up with rising documentation requirements as society opens up, you begin to see the temptations to fake them.

Crimes associated with making or using fake vaccination record cards include wrongfully using government seals, the FBI said in [a recent] warning.

That’s because fake cards often use the CDC and Health and Human Services seals seen on the real ones. That’s punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine.

In Northern California, a bar owner was arrested [May 11] on suspicion of selling fake Covid-19 vaccination cards.

He was charged with felonies including forgery of a government seal and identity theft of Pfizer, CVS and the CDC, a district attorney’s office said.

For employees required to get vaccinated to work, those that are unvaccinated might stand to lose their jobs.

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[In situations] such as an unvaccinated worker being caught using fake documentation to voluntarily reenter the workplace instead of working from home, or an unvaccinated college student caught using a fake to be on campus… it stands to reason that lying could jeopardize a person’s status as an employee or student.

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