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The growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warning (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

An unreadable box us a lot harder the read than scamMyAss.ru

[–] darkan15@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

QR is just image to text, most QR reading apps I have used, show you the QR content before going to the website (or let you disable opening the link directly) so you should be able to check the URL or content and see if the link is legit or not.

But let's be honest most people don't know or don't even bother and that's the real problem.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's also pretty easy to disguise the malicious part. For instance, hxxp://LegitimateBusiness.com@ScamMyAss.com

(Hoping that didn't get blocked as spam)

On many apps, that would truncate somewhere around the .com

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Or just legitbusiness-online-order[.]com

[–] agraves@lm.possum.city 2 points 2 years ago

Thankfully a lot of browsers already detect and block this behavior

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

But let’s be honest most people don’t know or don’t even bother and that’s the real problem.

100% they see the code and assume it can't be mean.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I clicked your link and provided my banking details. When do I get my PS5?

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Right away, but it shipped to my house.