Officials confirmed that QR codes are not used to process parking payments on city machines. Legitimate payment methods are displayed directly on the machine screen and include options such as coins, credit cards, and digital wallets.<\/p>\n
The city is continuing to monitor parking equipment and respond to reports of suspicious activity. Similar scams involving QR codes have been reported in multiple Canadian cities.<\/p>\n
While this incident occurred in Mississauga, the approach is not location-specific. Parking machines in any city \u2013 including Guelph \u2013 could be targeted in the same way, as the scam relies on placing physical stickers in public spaces.<\/p>\n
Residents are advised to avoid scanning QR codes found on parking machines and to rely only on official payment instructions displayed on the equipment. Suspicious codes should be reported to local municipal services so they can be removed quickly.<\/p>\n
Anyone who may have used a fraudulent QR code is advised to contact their financial institution immediately and monitor accounts for unauthorized activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials confirmed that QR codes are not used to process parking payments on city machines. Legitimate payment methods…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[158341,49,48,208193,1050,149153,208194,208195,208196,55405,1063],"class_list":{"0":"post-628637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mississauga","8":"tag-158341","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-city-of-guelph","12":"tag-community","13":"tag-guelph","14":"tag-guelph-community","15":"tag-guelph-police","16":"tag-guelph-police-service","17":"tag-mississauga","18":"tag-viral"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}