The terrorist organization has created a fake online page that provides a reasonable protective device around the global coronavirus pandemic.
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Unsuspected consumers who shoot the video may have simply been tricked into handing cash over to jihadists.
The — facemaskcenter.com — has now been seized through U.S. authorities.
Those who click on the link are greeted with a warning from U.S. law enforcement that says “this has been seized.”
Facemaskcenter.com sold N95 masks, Tyvek suits, gloves, glasses and thermometers as a variety of other PPE.
ISIS allegedly used it as a front, according to a senior Ministry of Justice official.
The terrorist group’s targets reportedly included hospitals, nursing homes and lifeguards as they tried to deposit money.
Officials also allegedly seized millions of dollars, heaps of Bitcoin and Ethereum accounts and at least 3 websites.
Prosecutors said confiscated assets were the “largest seizure of cryptocurrencies in the context of terrorism.”
Federal prosecutors said ISIS leaders were going to raise cash by providing non-public false protective equipment.
This happened in the midst of an era of desperate scarcity as the physical state was fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
ISIS fighters running the system said they can supply bulk masks up to 100,000, claiming they would be sent from Turkey.
The company reportedly conducted itself through “health experts” and boasted that it was established in 1996; the site had only been in operation since February 2020.
Mark Turnage, executive leader of DarkOwl, a security company that tracked the Covid-19 scams, told Wired that it had many “alarm signals.”
He said: “We have noticed a volume of illegitimate fabrics like the PPE sold and never delivered.
“The fact that ISIS has made the decision to have interaction in this activity is not surprising. They’re all capitalists. They are also benefiting from the pandemic.”
Turnage added: “You can only check from the date of domain creation if you are a valid provider compared to someone who is only looking to capitalize on the pandemic.”
John Demers, deputy attorney general of the National Security Division, told CBS: “They have an online operation.
“Here, they were turning this operation into creating those forgeries to get cash to fund terrorism when you think you were paying for a mask you needed.”
A senior Ministry of Justice official added that ISIS coronavirus fraud is “just a portion” of coronavirus fraud.
Investigators from the Department of Justice, FBI, Homeland Security and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) also found that al-Qaeda and Hamas terrorists were social networks and cryptocurrencies to increase the arms and operations budget.
ISIS terrorism fanatics have hailed coronavirus as “God’s little soldier” as they celebrate the pandemic that has inflamed 21 million others worldwide.
Followers of the terrorist organization urge their comrades to “militarize” the virus by intentionally spreading it to the “disbelievers.”
The militant’s state collapsed after being expelled across the Middle East, which once had vast swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
But the terrorist organization remains a worldwide risk, as it uses online networks to plan or motivate terrorist attacks amid fears that it may simply reorganize in the Middle East and Africa.
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