Vacancies for coveted counterfeit for $ 150: Mexico lucha against illegal munitions

A sanitary worker collects a vaccine against covid-19 at the General Hospital of Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), the 21st of January.
A sanitary worker collects a vaccine against covid-19 at the General Hospital of Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), the 21st of January.LUIS TORRES / EFE

The desperation that the world has to live on before evacuating coronavirus in full pandemic has spread to the Mexicans. While the most risky ones cross the front to receive a dose in the United States, which are less intentional than the most dangerous ones, such as online shopping and social networking products. Mexico vacated only 1% of its population and left one month without receiving a dose. This April, in order to obtain an injunction, we have a sale of drugs that are not registered. Mexican authorities have been alerted to offers of antidote by Pfizer, Modern or AstraZeneca that are not real, and have launched virtual reality web sites that sell illegal doses.

Whoever buys a vacancy on a web site in Mexico can finish receiving a watercress with a vial in a vial, a vacancy made in some laboratory without certifying it is simply staffed and does not receive anything after having paid it. Karin Tilens Revah, a psychologist-criminal, is one of the 40 members of the Mexico City’s Cybernetic Police, which is part of the virtual staffs. “We know that the vacuna [en el país] does not sell for any reason, only if Gobierno works ”and in a free way, explains. In the last few weeks he has received dozens of offers to buy the vaccine against covid in fake pages, social media like Facebook and Instagram, or the messenger messaging service.

‘Si teet met a internet y buscas’ venta de vacuna covid’, es probable que encuentres gente que las est vendendendo. Enter the page and appear real. But if there is a vacancy, it is false ”. Currently in Mexico there is no private company authorized to import munitions and sell them in national territory, the agent said.

The first alert in Saltar was fired by Pfizer. In principle, the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) issues an advertisement for false vacancy offers for this brand. The site www.pfizermx.com is one of these staff sites. The Tilens Revah team -which work in conjunction with a National Guard team- the dio de baja. In this case, robotic logos are used from the official web of the pharmaceuticals to convene the user. The injection costs around 3,000 people, 150 dollars. Once the customer has made the payment, through a bank deposit or transfer of the financial data, the pharmacy sends in addition to the home of the buyer 24 hours later. The promised dose never fails. “I am approving the need for people to deal with the pandemic,” the official said.

Pfizer’s alert has been sent to Moderna this week. And have a few days, the AstraZeneca. “Someone who puts in a boutique a label and obviously what it is: water, sino algo peor”, explains Tilens Revah. The vacancy is only the last aggregate to a large list of products to attend the covid subscribed on the internet. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the General Scientific Directorate of the National Guard has given over 2,300 sites and false social media reports that commercialization is illegal at the expense of necessity. A total of 1,600 units of furniture, medicine, cubicles and fans are sold; unos 400, gels and disinfectants; otros 300, oxygen; and recently, he gave birth to “a few more than 10 sites” that sell illegal vacancies.

Oliver González, Chief of the Scientific Directorate of the National Guard, explains that these sites use the image of the major pharmaceutical companies to engage. “The pages on the dark web or on the traditional internet that has made public the vacancy with information that it has been recovered and the user in his desperation is in fraud ”, he said. Only in 2020, 40% of the illegal sites that have deactivated González’s team have had an illegal sale related to the pandemic. Another of the great halls of the Capital Cibernica Police was launched in 2020, when a series of two web pages were made by official manufacturers of the 3M stadium brand, one of the main manufacturers of the N95 mascarilla.

In the midst of a global context of desperation, other countries also advertise illegal holiday homes. The Administration of Medicines and Food of the United States (FDA, by its rules in English) has launched the principles of this year a communication on the sale of vacancies that “has not been evaluated in terms of safety and efficacy, and can be fun” . A notice issued by Interpol in December, warning of “criminal activities related to counterfeiting, robbery or illicit publicity of vacancies” and pity avoids the cayeran munitions carried out by the delinquency organization.

The epidemiologist Mauricio Rodríguez makes sure that there is a “risk” of being vaccinated with these substances sold on the Internet because they can be found in laboratories without the necessary certificates or ingredients that do not require the necessary purity. “We do not have studies that demonstrate quality and security”, Dice. In most cases, it is only watered down, explained, and in peor, can generate a debit toxicity layer that is not known with certainty that is present in the phrase. “There is no such thing as a potential death, it’s most likely that it will be necessary to protect the people,” he said.

Rodríguez, who also is the vocation of the commission of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) for the covid, has a “euphoria for the vacancies”. The immunization, it explains, “is planted as an intermediate and available solution, and the people relay the media and produce more contagios”. Part of the cases that are registered in black, according to him, are produced by this euphoria that generates “a false sense of protection”. There was an error in the communication, affirmation, because the evacuation was slow and smooth. “Everything on the planet is needed now and availability is limited. Therefore it is not possible to preoccupy with buying, but to continue interrupting the contagion chain ”.

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