# CDC impersonators scamming

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cdc-impersonators-scamming/849855>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [March 20, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cdc-impersonators-scamming/849855 "2020-03-20T01:36:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cdc-impersonators-scamming/849855/1 "2020-03-20T01:36:10Z")

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[https://nj1015.com/beware-coronavirus-websites-and-door-to-door-cdc-impersonators/](https://nj1015.com/beware-coronavirus-websites-and-door-to-door-cdc-impersonators/)

Article is from New Jersey, but we had reported incidents here in the AZ today. One even asked to come in to take a blood sample.

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cdc-impersonators-scamming/849855/2 "2020-03-20T06:00:30Z")

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I’ve gotten obviously spam E-mail with “coronavirus” or “COVID” in the subject line. Sometimes the subject line is with normal text, and sometimes it has those odd symbols that sort of resemble the letters they’re replacing. I didn’t bother reading them; just sent them to their destingy (the recycle bin and deletion).