qr code scams

Cybercrime has become one of the biggest challenges for businesses and individuals online. Tricksters, with the help of the latest technology, manipulate people and steal their data even taking charge of their devices and accessing bank accounts and other sensitive details. Apart from all the current tricks that scammers use, a new way to fool people has gradually emerged and it has become one of the most feared cybercrime strategies. In technical terms, the new scam is called “quishing”, where scammers use QR codes to…

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic, the adoption of technology and a shift to the digital world has been rapid. While concert tickets are now available on your smartphones, restaurants also now have digital menus! Even making payments can be done digitally instead of pulling out cash from your wallet. Most of these activities require scanning a QR code, a two-dimensional matrix barcode, with your smartphone's camera, or a dedicated QR code scanner. While the QR code that you scan at McDonald's or KFC might be safe, you…

Image Source : FREEPIK QR Code Scam (Representaional Image) QR Code Scams: QR code scams are not new. In 2021, such fraud came to light when Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's daughter Harshita was duped of Rs 34,000 by a man on an e-commerce platform where she had listed a sofa on sale. Of late, several such QR code scams have been making headlines where people…