'This is especially egregious now when there is financial insecurity, economic insecurity, people are not getting paychecks, people are losing their jobs,' said Nassau County Executive Laura Curran.
A New York business has been fined $25,000 for selling uncertified and over-priced N95 face masks out of a warehouse, Nassau County authorities said this week.
"I think the most egregious we have come across is a Plainview warehouse selling N95 masks at an inflated price," Curran said."So that is bad enough, that is already a violation, however, the masks were not N95 certified and this particular mask wasn't supposed to be sold as of 2011." "We have some, a small number, but we do have some bad actors... looking to capitalize on this and take advantage of fear and anxiety. This price gouging tally is $350,000, which is so awful when you think about the kind of financial state that so many of our residents are in right now."
The politician added that scammers were also spoofing official phone numbers and phishing for social security numbers, and stressed that authorities will never ask for that form of personal data. This week, security expertsYesterday, 3M pledged to take action after confirming it too had received reports of price gouging and people selling counterfeit products falsely claimed to be from the company.
Early last month, Amazon confirmed that it had removed more than one million products for price gouging or false advertising linked to COVID-19."Sellers set their own product prices in our store and we have policies to help ensure sellers are pricing products competitively.
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