[v0x]

There are a ton of these shady 'testing' sites all over the country. Some of them will just take all of your information[1], presumably for purposes of identity theft. I was visiting Houston about a year ago and I saw what I thought was such a site in a parking lot nearby where I was staying, and it was absolutely packed with people for several days, because this site was listed as a free testing location by several local news outlets.

I looked up the owner of the business; they were quite young and their only previous work history was they were the CEO of a small escape room company or something along those lines. There were some other red flags as well (though I don't remember all of them).

[1] https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2022/01/dont-assume...

[jjeaff]

If they were officially registered, I doubt they were doing it just for the data. They were probably able to file for payment for each test administered, real or fake. The data would just be icing.

[throwawayboise]

Yep. Incentives drive behavior.

[ohyoutravel]

I had this same experience in St. Louis. Visiting for work from international so needed a negative test before returning home. I went to a small place and it was an empty storefront with Covid test signs in the window. They took my data, promised PCR results in 48 hours (which were needed for international travel to my country at the time). They didn’t send anything until maybe a month later, much too late for my flight. Looked up the company and it was a Chicago company that fit a similar description to yours. Kind of sketchy and weird, ended up going to a national chain for one within the travel window.