Traffic violation scams swap links for QR codes to steal your card details
Don’t have an account? Sign up > Try our antivirus with a free, full-featured 14-day trial Protect your team’s devices and data – no IT skills needed Explore award-winning endpoint security for your business As soon as people start to get to grips with a certain type of scam, criminals deploy new tactics to keep stealing money. Now people have learned to distrust links in text messages, scammers have changed the bait, and in 2026 the “new link” is often a QR code tucked inside a fake notice. The latest twist on the old unpaid toll and traffic violation scams is especially sneaky because it looks more official than a simple message with a URL. Instead of a plain link, victims get an image of a court or agency notice and are told to scan the QR code to pay a fairly small fine. That small fee is part of the trick. It feels cheap enough to pay quickly, which is exactly why the scam works. Th
Source: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/04/traffic-violation-scams-swap-links-for-qr-codes-to-steal-your-card-details
