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Everyone remembers the trauma of trying to get a COVID-19 test at the start of the pandemic. Simply determining the right website to make an appointment felt like navigating a complicated maze. One site would send you to another that would send you back to the first. The next available appointment wasn’t for another week at a location miles away. It was a nightmare. Then you’d have to go stand in a long line of possibly sick individuals and have a stranger cram a swab up your nose or watch you cough into a tube. Nobody misses those days. Now that at-home COVID-19 tests are widely available, the public has become spoiled with an easier, more pleasant method for testing. In fact, the public has become so keen on picking up these tests that Reuters reports major pharmacies have even had to limit the number of tests a consumer can purchase.
CNN reports that scammers are cornering the COVID-19 test market. They’re doing it through fake pop-up tents offering rapid tests, and they’re doing it through at-home tests. Buying from these scammers can put not just your money at risk but also your private information. Scammers are in the at-home COVID-19 test game. Here’s what to know.
Unsolicited Texts Offering Free At Home Covid Tests
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Scams in the form of unsolicited texts are on the rise. Truecaller’s Scam and Spam report of 2021 says that 59 percent of Americans…
