Darknet Vendors Selling COVID-19 Vaccines

Nations around the world are waiting in eager anticipation as they are hoping to secure regulatory approval for the Covid-19 vaccine, which is said to offer up to 95 percent protection against Sars-CoV2. But it appears that the vaccine is already available on the darknet.

There are multiple vendors who appear to be selling doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to worldwide customers for as much as $1,300 a piece on dark web markets.

One of the listing read, “The doses of the COVID-19 vaccine has [sic] been developed by Pfizer and BioNTec,” and “We can deliver in any country.”

The vendors claim to be pharmacists, saying that they acquired the vaccine through the government and have already sold it to multiple customers. One vendor claimed to have a stockpile of some 560 doses. One of the vendor provided a high-quality stock image of a vial labelled “Coronavirus Vaccine”.

Pandemic profiteering is nothing new on darknet markets. In April, multiple darknet vendors were selling what they claimed to be the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients for nearly $16,000 per liter, even promising prospective buyers “a life immunity against coronavirus”. Then, again in September, another darkweb vendor on the same marketplace advertised at-home COVID testing kits—claiming he’d made more than $1.4 million selling them to hospitals without enough resources.