US govt seizes over 10M phony N95 masks in COVID-19 probe

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BREAKING: Homeland Security says it has seized roughly 10 million phony N95 masks in recent weeks in an ongoing counterfeit investigation. In the most recent seizure, hundreds of thousands of counterfeit masks were intercepted in an East Coast warehouse.

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This December 2020 image provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows a counterfeit N95 surgical mask that was seized by ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Federal investigators are probing a massive counterfeit N95 mask operation sold in at least five states to hospitals, medical facilities, and government agencies and expect the number to rise significantly in coming weeks.

The most recent seizures occurred Wednesday when Homeland Security agents intercepted hundreds of thousands of counterfeit 3M masks in an East Coast warehouse that were set to be distributed, officials said. The masks do not come through 3M’s regular distributors, they come from outside the normal supply chain, officials said. But hospitals and medical groups have increasingly gone around normal purchasing routines during mask shortages in the global pandemic, officials said. They said the scams are taking advantage of the panic over masks.

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This is reprehensible!

Why does it matter? People use the bare minimum anyway.

Mask smuggling?Really?They’re getting a lot of mileage out of this scamdemic

The hits don’t stop

What about the millions that are sold on amazon? Asking for an elderly family member that wants to continue living.

They should ask the Kushners if they were involved.

Would probably work as well as the ones we are all wearing now. Ive seen people with a torn t-shirt over their mouth. Not the nose. Just the mouth.

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