Scam alert: Beware of COVID vaccine emails – they're all fake

August 12, 2020

Russia’s Vladimir Putin announced yesterday that they’ve developed a COVID-19 vaccine — and that it works so well that even his own daughter has taken it. This only adds to the frenzy of scam emails being received by millions of Americans promising a vaccine. Here’s what’s going on.

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Tags: COVID-19, Putin, Russia, scam

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