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Fake Claims & Fraudulent Products against COVID-19

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CORONA VIRUS DISEASES

Fake Claims & Fraudulent Products

against

COVID-19



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When a vaccine is developed, it will possibly lead to a shift in focus away from PPE smuggling to trafficking in the vaccine.

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Health and lives are at threat with criminals exploiting the COVID-19 disaster to cash in on public anxiety and accelerated demand for PPE and medications. Among its countless other impacts, the COVID-19 has further highlighted the shortcomings in regulatory and legal frameworks aimed at stopping the manufacturing and promoting of these products. The research displays that crook gangs are exploiting both the uncertainties surrounding the corona virus diseases along with inconsistencies in world regulation regimens. “Transnational organized crime businesses take benefit of gaps in national regulation and oversight to peddle substandard and falsified medical product”, explained the UN crime-fighting chief.The falsification of medical products bears great risks for public health as products may also no longer precise treatment to the diseases and may facilitate the improvement of drug resistance.

Criminal groups have also rapidly adjusted to the possibilities springing up from the COVID-19 pandemic to exploit the vulnerabilities and gaps in the health and criminal justice systems.  Evidence suggests that fraud, scams and seizures, involving the manufacture and trafficking of substandard and falsified medical products, have accompanied the spread of the virus. In a case, German health authorities contracted two sales organizations in Switzerland and Germany to procure €15 million worth of face masks via a cloned website of an apparently legitimate company in Spain.  “We want to assist international locations increase cooperation to close gaps, build law enforcement and criminal justice capacity, and pressure public attention to keep human beings safe”, Ms. Waly upheld. The pandemic has highlighted a growth in data-based scams along with phishing and business email assaults or the creation of fake company web sites to fool purchasers. UNODC’s research predicts that the behavior of organized crook groups will steadily alternate over the course of the pandemic. When a vaccine is developed, it will possibly lead to a shift in focus away from PPE smuggling to trafficking in the vaccine.

Moreover, cyber attacks on integral infrastructure involved in addressing the pandemic are probably to continue in the structure of online scams aimed at health procurement authorities, in accordance to the research. Strengthening criminal frameworks and penalties, and a more harmonized global approach to the criminalization of the manufacture and trafficking of falsified clinical or medical products is crucial, as solely a common approach will enable effective responses to crimes impacting humans and public health, the UNODC quick maintains. At the mean time, however, preventing, detecting, and responding to medical product-related crime will require people who work in the medical product sectors to accumulate new or additional skills.

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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC stated it took down more than 2,000 on-line corona virus diseases scams in March alone, which included 471 fake online retail outlets promoting and selling fraudulent COVID-19-related items.

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Police in France eliminated 70 fraudulent web sites claiming to promote and sell chloroquine in April. Note that Chloroquine is used to prevent or treat malaria triggered through mosquito bites. Chloroquine belongs to a category of drugs regarded as antimalarials.

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COVID-19-related scams in the USA amounted to approx. US $ 13.4 million in fraud, from the starting of January to mid-April this year, and have affected more than 18,000 citizens.

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In the first 4 months of 2020, 1,541 cyber attacks associated to COVID-19 have been detected in the United Arab Emirates along with 775 malware threats, 621 email junk mail attacks and a hundred forty five URL attacks.

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A seizure of 3,300 thermometers was reported in Thailand, after being trafficked via three different international locations and a report of thermometers which do no longer conform with EU policies was also mentioned in Italy.

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Organized criminal organizations in the Western Balkans are believed to be concerned in money laundering and investing their illicit gains in the manufacturing and trafficking of falsified medical products and protective clothing.

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There have been COVID-19-related reports of substandard and falsified ventilators in Russia, the place where a fraud enquiry has begun, as properly as in the UK, where ventilators supplied have been substandard and potentially dangerous. The supply of substandard ventilators was   reported in Bosnia and Herzegovina.



Sources: International Agencies


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