Thousands Of Fake Vaccine Cards Seized In Kentucky

More than 1,600 fake COVID-19 vaccination cards were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Erlanger, Kentucky, over the last month.

The cards and an additional 2,000 fake Pfizer inoculation stickers were found in shipments from China that were headed to private residences in Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, New York and Texas.

Customs agents were able to spot the cards because of their poor printing quality and typos. On some of the cards, "COVID-19" was misspelled, Spectrum News 1 reported.

Buying fake vaccination cards is illegal, and multiple people in the U.S. have already been arrested for using them.

“It is a big deal. For one, they’re creating fraudulent cards, government issued cards," Richard Gillespie, director of the Port of Cincinnati for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told the station.

"But the bigger concern, obviously, is the stemming of the expansion of the COVID virus, stopping that from continuing to spread. If you have somebody that is utilizing one of these vaccine cards to gain entry perhaps to an event, a lot of the local concert venues are requiring proof of vaccination, and so you don’t really want to have somebody that actually is positive with the COVID virus in close proximity to thousands of other people," he said.