{"id":36,"date":"2026-09-20T14:37:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/2026\/09\/20\/qr-code-scams-scan-with-care\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:41:23","slug":"qr-code-scams-scan-with-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/2026\/09\/20\/qr-code-scams-scan-with-care\/","title":{"rendered":"QR code scams: scan with care"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>\n<p>QR codes make life convenient, from menus to parking. Because you cannot read where a code leads before you scan it, criminals use them to send people to fake pages.<\/p>\n<h2>Where the risk appears<\/h2>\n<p>Common tricks include stickers placed over genuine codes on posters or parking meters, codes in unexpected emails or letters, and messages claiming a delivery or payment problem. The linked page copies a real login or payment form and captures what you type.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/qr-scams-diagram-1-1024x358.jpg\" alt=\"QR code scams: scan with care\" class=\"wp-image-120\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/qr-scams-diagram-1-1024x358.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/qr-scams-diagram-1-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/qr-scams-diagram-1-768x269.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/qr-scams-diagram-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Illustration: QR code scams: scan with care<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Scan with care<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Check the link preview your phone shows before opening it<\/li>\n<li>Look for stickers placed on top of printed codes<\/li>\n<li>Do not scan codes from unexpected messages<\/li>\n<li>Type the address yourself for banking or account pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>When in doubt<\/h2>\n<p>Never enter card details or passwords on a page you reached from an unknown code. Businesses can help customers by displaying codes in tamper-resistant places and showing the web address in plain text beside them. If you entered details by mistake, contact your bank and change the password at once.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Key takeaway: treat a QR code like an unknown link and check where it leads.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QR codes make life convenient, from menus to parking. Because you cannot read where a code leads before you scan it, criminals use them to send people to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scam-alert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/qr-scams-hero-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosravo.com\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}