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According to the Venezuelan Overseas Chinese Daily, "Hello, I am Maria, and I want to tell you that I have a certain vaccination quota. I have a few empty seats, and if you are interested, please tell me, "I send you the payment method and address", which is a message that Carlos Arroyo received from WhatsApp from a list of phone contacts who were not registered on his phone. Allegedly, the "cybercriminals" who call themselves "Maria" offer COVID-19 vaccines in addition to selling dollars.
Since mid-2018, "Hello, I'm Maria" is a new type of scam that has spread in Venezuela. According to Douglas Rico, director of the Bureau of Secret Investigations (Cicpc), criminal gangs hacked Facebook and personal emails, posing as acquaintances and selling dollars to potential victims.
However, due to the coronavirus pandemic and the severe economic crisis in Venezuela, these "cybercriminals" are now committed to selling vaccine quotas to prevent the coronavirus. They wrote in the message that if the victim expressed interest, they would provide payment instructions and the address where they would allegedly be vaccinated.
The news coincided with the complaint of Baltazar Porras, the cardinal of the Archdiocese of Caracas.
"Some people have paid to get vaccinated in private places, or I don't know how. This requires a thorough examination. Those who have to be in vaccination centers should be the most vulnerable, such as doctors and nurses, but I don't know about that and there is not enough information to give people confidence in getting vaccinated," the cardinal told TVV Noticias. (Original title: Venezuela spreads a new type of new coronavirus vaccine scam)
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