That QR Code on the Parking Meter Might Be a Scam

You scan QR codes constantly without thinking about it — the restaurant menu, the parking meter, the flyer taped to a lamppost. A QR code scam usually doesn't look like a scam at all, which is exactly the problem. It looks like a sticker. It looks like part of the wallpaper. That gap between how QR codes look and what they can actually do is where quishing — QR code phishing — has quietly become one of the fastest-growing scam categories of 2026. A QR code scam works because the malicious part i