Maria Irshad is the assistant director of ParkHouston, the city’s on-street parking department. She says the city removed 10 total fraudulent QR codes from their 900-plus pay stations in one day. All 10 of these QR codes were directing customers to fraudulent payment sites.

"It’s very upsetting that someone could be ticketed for non-payment when in reality, they paid a fake site and possibly had their personal information stolen," Irshad told Fox Business.

Cybersecurity experts say hackers are using the fraudulent sites to store banking information or install dangerous malware on devices

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Getting clever these scammers. Such a sad reality of life that we have to be so constantly vigilant against scams.

Not sure where you stand on these kind of scams as you have directed yourself to the website etc. Will be checking the web address of any QR codes I scan in future. Can't trust anyone nowadays.

Hopefully they haven't missed any when they removed these.

Worrying times

They're pushing BS over here in Hong Kong too.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hon ... e=homepage

Which means I can't go to eat out starting in Feb 24.

cheunt3 wrote: Sat Jan 29, 2022 8:42 pm They're pushing BS over here in Hong Kong too.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hon ... e=homepage

Which means I can't go to eat out starting in Feb 24.

Good to know! I will be on the lookout for these!

I never scan any QR codes that I am not absolutely sure what they are to avoid things like that.