The Belgian energy company EnergyVision warns against a form of phishing in which criminals paste their own QR codes on charging stations, with which users can pay for charging their car. In reality, they are being cheated out of money.
Drivers of electric cars in Brussels can pay for charging their car at a charging station in two ways. This can be done with a charging card, but also by scanning a QR code on the pole. However, scammers stick their own fake QR code on top of the real one on some posts, VRT reports. Anyone who scans this QR code will be taken to a criminal payment site. EnergyVision calls this phishing method 'quishing'.
EnergyVision checked all its two thousand charging stations in Brussels. Fraudulent stickers were found on twenty posts. Those stickers have been removed and the fraudster's website has been taken offline. EnergyVision continues to offer the option to pay via QR codes, because in Europe it is mandatory to also offer payments without a charging card. In this way, accessibility should be increased.
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