Danger! New fraud stitch quishing at parking machines discovered!

Danger! New fraud stitch quishing at parking machines discovered!

Waren, Deutschland - In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a new attempt to fraud gets rolling: The "Quishing" method has been launched. In doing so, fraudsters cover existing QR codes on parking ticket machines with fake stickers. These then lead unsuspecting users to fake websites on which they are asked to pay contactlessly. The first warnings were pronounced by the city, the Neubrandenburg police inspection, the Hanseatic city of Rostock and the Rostock police headquarters. Uckermarkurier reports that five parking ticket machines are already affected.

The particularly insidious QR codes are attached to the following machines: fairground, MüritzenumSparkplatz, medical center on Kietz, Kietzstraße 1 and stone jetty. Citizens are called to report suspicious stickers immediately to the Office for Citizens' Services or the police. "You should rather look closely," said the authorities. Above all, since this fraud stitch is not only in goods: there have already been similar incidents in cities such as Parchim, Stralsund, Binz and Schwerin. According to Tagesschau , for example, fraudulent QR-CODES were also discovered in Wismar.

rapidly increasing damage cases

The numbers speak a clear language: by mid -June 2024, the damage caused by this fraud mesh in goods in goods was 209.98 euros - a year ago it was only 70.50 euros. While only two damage cases were reported in 2024, the police are already looking at seven incidents this year. This shows that crime is willing to grow rapidly, and you should always keep your eyes open. A fundamental sign of the danger is also abnormalities such as the lack of umlauts (e.g. "Ae" instead of "ä") on the fake pages and the duration of possibility for parking times that go beyond the permissible options.