{"id":34687,"date":"2021-01-14T09:50:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T07:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34687"},"modified":"2025-08-28T21:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:45:05","slug":"more-than-340-darknet-ads-offering-covid-19-vaccines-for-bitcoin-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/more-than-340-darknet-ads-offering-covid-19-vaccines-for-bitcoin-found\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 340 darknet ads offering COVID-19 vaccines for Bitcoin found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Fake listings for the sale of COVID-19 vaccines are circulating on the dark web, with payments requested in bitcoins. <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/13\/covid-19-vaccines-scammers-claim-to-sell-doses-on-dark-web-for-bitcoin.html\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">CNBC<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> citing Check Point.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Experts found more than 340 such listings across 34 sites. Check Point estimates that as recently as December there were eight such pages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The average price per dose has risen from $250 to $500 and even $1,000, researchers say. They attempted to purchase a vaccine by contacting one of the sellers on Telegram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">They were offered a Chinese-made vaccine for $750 in bitcoins. After the researchers paid, the seller&#8217;s account was deleted, and the order was never delivered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier in December, the cryptocurrency revenue of darknet markets <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/darknet-markets-cryptocurrency-revenue-topped-1-5-billion-in-2020\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">exceeded $1.5 billion<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake listings for COVID-19 vaccines are circulating on the dark web, with payments requested in bitcoins. CNBC reports, citing Check Point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1863,1154,477],"class_list":["post-34687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coronavirus","tag-crimes","tag-darknet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34689,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34687\/revisions\/34689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}