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Old 01-13-2025, 03:15 PM
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Default Scam Yes, but only minor

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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy View Post
They are just trying everything to steal anything.
Scanning a QR code doesn’t drain your cell phone data or permit someone to enter your phone data base. Theoretically it used to be just a means to get you directed to a website.

Caution though; websites can be set up to automatically download data to a device if you even enter the websites domain. It isn’t that much of a stretch to see someone figuring out how to bypass permissions on an android phone to upload from your phone while the Apple device would be much more difficult to do.

There was a scam going on with parking meters not long ago. In Austin, Texas thieves had manufactured their own code and made it into stickers. They then placed these fake scan code stickers covering valid stickers on city meters. When unsuspecting tourists scanned the falsified codes, they entered a fake site where they had to enter their license plate and visa info to pay for parking. Of course unaware, funds were sent to the thieves accounts and they had your visa data too.

I won’t scan codes anymore with my phone.
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