Better Business Bureau Warns: Don’t share your COVID-19 vaccine card on social media
I bet your friends who have been vaccinated have posted their vaccine cards on Facebook or Instagram. I certainly have seen tons of those posts. According to the Better Business Burea, STOP!!
Why? because criminals have started posting fake vaccination cards for sale on the internet using information culled from posted cards on social media. Yikes!
Plus, the cards give identity thieves valuable information like your name coupled with your birthdate.
How can you share your good news with your Facebook and Instagram friends?
- Share the sticker that you received when you get vaccinated. That is what I did!
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And as I precautionary task, this is a good time to check your security settings on your social media platforms to see how they are configured. I have my settings set so that my family and friends can see my posts on Facebook but my NYC Single Mom Instagram posts are for everyone to see since it’s linked to my blog. That said, I do not put personal information on my instagram posts.
Definitely check out the Better Business Bureau site which has identified many ways in which scammers are cashing in on the COVID-19 pandemic such as vaccine scams, clinical trial scams, contract tracing cons, counterfeit face masks, and government agency imposters.
Disclosure: NYC Single Mom was not compensated for this post.
