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I was going to post this in !britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca, but this is likely a national / international problem.

City officials say the QR codes were not authorized by either the municipality or its mobile payment provider, PayByPhone. While the stickers appeared to advertise a convenient way to pay for parking, they actually redirected drivers to a fraudulent site.

I guess it's best to either use the machine (while jiggling the card reader), or you keep the official app pre-installed on your device

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[–] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, someone should tell the City of Edmonton about this. Last year they eliminated physical parking machines in the city, and there is a QR code on basically every parking sign now. I wonder if anyone considered how vulnerable QR codes are to these imitation scams.

I assume they already have active countermeasures in place, but then again, online-only street parking seems rather ill-conceived to begin with.

[–] new_otters_raft@piefed.ca 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That sounds rough for people who don't have a smartphone, if you forget it somewhere, if it's out of power, etc

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

It's also a pain in the ass for travellers to need yet another bloody app each time they visit a new city.