Black market passes

Vaccine passes are being offered for sale on a social media platform for $10, with transactions being done in bitcoin currency. One anonymous post offers $50 for passes and claims they are ‘‘real’’. ‘‘We pay $ for vaccine passes, and then we sell them to members of the public who need them,’’ the post read. ‘‘Since the vaccine passes are real they will be accepted at shops, unless they require an ID check.’’ The posts were spotted by a member of FACT Aotearoa – a group working against the spread of conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine activity – and reported to police on Monday morning. My Vaccine Pass is the Government’s vaccine certification system. It is a QR code, allowing venues to check whether a person has been vaccinated against Covid-19 or not.