Drivers have been warned over a car parking scam after a man was charged £400.

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Cleveland said that fraudsters are using convincing-looking QR codes in car parks to dupe drivers into logging on to bogus websites to pay parking fees. Instead of paying a few pounds for parking, unsuspecting drivers have been conned out of hundreds by using their cards on fake – but realistic-looking – websites.

The growing trend of QR fishing – or Quishing – has seen criminals taking advantage of publicly-displayed codes, often found in retail outlets, car parks and tourist hotspots, to post their own fake codes and re-direct the public to malicious websites. One victim thought he was paying £1.50 per hour for car parking in Redcar .

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