New Scam in Oklahoma! Beware

[BryanDP]

Geez, I thought the days of email chains mindlessly forwarded without any research ended in the 90's and 2000's. Social media is used for this now, what you should be worried about is entities that use social media to spread disinformation. If you are going to share something, do some research.

Scanning a QR code isn't going to magically steal your info, the QR code suggests you open a website where YOU enter your information and it is stolen because YOU gave it up. The is no magical app in a QR code that gets all of the info from you phone.

Thanks for the voice of reason. Now can you jump on my Facebook feed and tell it to the hundred or so people that have posted on there?

 

[Shoot Summ]

Thanks for the voice of reason. Now can you jump on my Facebook feed and tell it to the hundred or so people that have posted on there?

Mindless sharing, it is an endless task to fix...

What is sad is that in their effort to be so helpful they become a tool for bad entities to propagate misinformation.

 

[TerryMiller]

Geez, I thought the days of email chains mindlessly forwarded without any research ended in the 90's and 2000's. Social media is used for this now, what you should be worried about is entities that use social media to spread disinformation. If you are going to share something, do some research.

Scanning a QR code isn't going to magically steal your info, the QR code suggests you open a website where YOU enter your information and it is stolen because YOU gave it up. The is no magical app in a QR code that gets all of the info from you phone.

I have a "business card" with directions to my Smugmug photo site that also has a QR code on it. Most that I've seen that try to use the code see a message stating something to the effect that "the site is somehow suspect." I generally just tell those folks to use their search engines to search for the site.

 

[OKRuss]

Geez, I thought the days of email chains mindlessly forwarded without any research ended in the 90's and 2000's. Social media is used for this now, what you should be worried about is entities that use social media to spread disinformation. If you are going to share something, do some research.

Scanning a QR code isn't going to magically steal your info, the QR code suggests you open a website where YOU enter your information and it is stolen because YOU gave it up. The is no magical app in a QR code that gets all of the info from you phone.

I thought this as well but reading online has several sites saying that just scanning the QR code CAN install malware on your device(see #2 below).

QR Code scams are often of three types:

1. A fraudulent QR Code that leads to a website that prompts users to enter their personal information like credit card number
2. Fake QR Codes that initiate the download of a malicious software on your mobile
3. Scanning a QR Code that takes you to fake offers like rewards and discounts that don’t exist

Malware
QR codes can contain malware that infects devices and compromises security and privacy

What you're saying is that just scanning the QR code can't do anything but take you to another site via 'fake' URL, then YOU have to initiate the fraud and it's not automatic? Scanning CAN NOT install malware onto your device?