{"id":3792,"date":"2021-12-23T20:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T20:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEFKOfX6kWJ_HiKTKE0AN-roqFggEKg0IACoGCAow7s8BMNBIMLXUiQY"},"modified":"2021-12-23T20:43:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T20:43:47","slug":"man-gets-surprise-item-with-his-amazon-order-a-fake-vax-card-the-daily-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=3792","title":{"rendered":"Man Gets Surprise Item With His Amazon Order: a Fake Vax Card &#8211; The Daily Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_3223,w_5729,x_0,y_0\/dpr_2.0\/c_limit,w_740\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1640289235\/2021-01-10T210327Z_1289034955_RC295L9P4QIX_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-VACCINES-NEW-YORK_qbwmbg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Mobiledoc\">\n<p>A Connecticut man reportedly received an unexpected bonus item when he ordered a clear passport holder on Amazon: a blank COVID-19 vaccine card. The item looked similar to an authentic version of the card but was overly large and \u201can obvious fake,\u201d according to the <em>Connecticut Post<\/em>, which first reported on the incident. The man alerted state authorities after receiving the knock-off. A spokesperson for Amazon told the newspaper that the online retailer does not permit fake vaccine cards on its site and has introduced measures \u201cto prevent prohibited products from being listed\u201d and to identify \u201cbad actors that attempt to evade our systems.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ReadItAtLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpost.com\/news\/article\/CT-man-ordered-a-passport-holder-on-Amazon-It-16724745.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Read it at <\/span><span class=\"ReadItAtLink__name\">Connecticut Post<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Connecticut man reportedly received an unexpected bonus item when he ordered a clear passport holder on Amazon: a blank COVID-19 vaccine card. The item looked similar to an authentic version of the card but was overly large and \u201can obvious fake,\u201d according to the Connecticut Post, which first reported on the incident. The man alerted state authorities after receiving the knock-off. A spokesperson for Amazon told the newspaper that the online retailer does not permit fake vaccine cards on its site and has introduced measures \u201cto prevent prohibited products from being listed\u201d and to identify \u201cbad actors that attempt&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-cbd-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}