New fraud: QR code traps discovered on parking machines!

New fraud: QR code traps discovered on parking machines!

In a new perfidious fraud stitch, criminals have now targeted parking machines and use fake QR codes to deceive unsuspecting users. As the gea.de simply stick stickers about the original QR-codes, which for payment of parking fees are planned. Instead of leading to the legitimate Easypark app, the scanned code guides the users to a fake website where your credit card and personal data is tackled.

The phenomenon that the investigators call QR code pishing or quishing has already caused excitement in e-car charging stations in the past. Now the parking machines in different cities are affected. Those affected should have their credit cards locked as a precaution and should the police file a complaint, the ADAC . Similar behavior on e-charging stations had already been found in summer, with the perpetrators also relying on creative stickers and fake websites. The Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office urges this new fraud.

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