QR codes now run everything abroad — menus, parking meters, transit machines, scooter rentals — and scammers have noticed. The trick, called 'quishing,' is a fake sticker placed over a real code that sends you to a lookalike payment page. How to check a code before you scan, spot the tell-tale sticker-over-sticker, and pay without handing your card to a stranger.
Our take
Before you scan a public QR code, run a fingernail over it — a scam sticker sits on top of the real one and peels at the edge. Never enter card details on a page a QR code opens cold; close it and pay through the official app or at the counter instead. The parking-meter and restaurant-table codes are the ones being hit hardest.
Attribution: Summary and commentary by My Vacation Hub. Original reporting by
The Planet D.
Source: theplanetd.com
