For those who don’t know, it’s where someone takes a QR code like on a poster for a concert and puts a sticker with a different QR code on top to a fake website that looks like the concert website (or a Rick Roll).

The obvious answer is to scratch off the QR code if you notice it’s a sticker, but It’s not always acceptable -or legal- to start damaging stuff to check if it’s real or not. Also what if it’s out of reach on a sign or something?

You can’t put a little text under saying what the website is as a sort of checksum because the vandal can just write their own website under their sticker.

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    5 hours ago

    Like that one restaurant, with their fancy engraved QR code menus that linked to localhost.