Bogus QR codes vexes Lynbrook parking
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Fake QR codes are confusing people using the Lynbrook village parking meters. Above, a QR code for the URL of the English Wikipedia Mobile main page.
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For every action there is a reaction. Using QR codes in most instances are good and easy. In Lynbrook, the use of QR codes showing up on parking meters and signs last week appears to be a scam, village police said.
The fake QR codes were found on Eldert Street and Carpenter Avenue, according to Lynbrook officials. The village does not use QR codes as a method to pay for parking. The meters are pay by phone. When scanned the bogus QR code accessed a website eerily indistinguishable to the village's pay by phone parking website.
Lynbrook police are investigating. Anyone who thinks that they could have been a scam victim should call the village police at (516) 599-3300.
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