by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 7, 2025 | Scam of the day
For a year municipal authorities in San Francisco have warned about scammers putting phony, but legitimate appearing parking tickets on the cars of people. The phony parking tickets contain a QR code that takes you to a bogus, but legitimate appearing website where...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 20, 2025 | Scam of the day
The Boston Police Department is warning people about a new scam involving text messages that appear to come from the City of Boston indicating the person receiving the text message has an overdue parking ticket. The text message contains at the top of the message ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 29, 2022 | Scam of the day
Police in Santa Cruz, California recently arrested a 19 year old boy who they say created fake parking tickets with a QR code that the targeted victims could scan in order to pay for the phony parking tickets. He then put the tickets on numerous parked cards. The QR...