Socializing vaccination card will bung you in pitfall
We all have been dodged a bullet with the doleful experience of masking, distancing and freelancing by sharing everyday happenings on social media. Cheers! But hey, halt, now don't think to socialize your vaccination card else you will fall into great danger!
Internet scammers have their eyes on your posts, be careful!
It is highly recommended that not to share your vaccination card selfies on any of the social media platforms, you might get targeted to mischievous identity thefts.
Federal Trade Commission says, “Some of you are celebrating your second COVID-19 vaccination with the giddy enthusiasm that’s usually reserved for weddings, new babies, and other life events,” “You’re posting a photo of your vaccination card on social media. Please — don’t do that! You could be inviting identity theft.”
Personal information like name, birth date, when and where you got vaccinated, contained in your vaccination card must not be shared on social media as it is a free invitation to internet theft.
According to privacy experts, scammers awaits for such opportunities. They can play their scam card of being healthcare official to fool the receivers of the first dose of the vaccine into thinking they are required to make payment for the second dose, thus, they'll get the sufferers' credit card details.
Mischief does not end here, the type two scammers are thinking to recreate cards using photos of your vaccination card and make money.
That's why to combat with such ill possibilities the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Vaccinate with Confidence campaign, is planning for states to hand round stickers to the newly vaccinated, as an alternative of vaccination card post.
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