Attention hikers: Harz-criminals use perfidious QR code!

Attention hikers: Harz-criminals use perfidious QR code!

Hexe am Skulpturenpfad, 38875 Schulenberg im Harz, Deutschland - hikers in the Harz must be careful! Criminals have developed a clever trick to pull money out of the good -faith community. Fraudsters have glued a fake sticker with a QR code on a donation box from the Schulenberg Harz Club, which asks to donate via Bitcoin. The affected can stood on the witch on the sculpture path, where hikers usually give their donations.

The mesh was discovered last weekend (October 12/13) when the pathway removed the suspect sticker. Who is behind this brazen fraud remains unclear, as well as the number of hikers who may have transferred money. The Schulenberg Harz Club emphasizes that it does not use QR codes for donations and only relies on the traditional donation box. The police in the resin urgently warns of the phenomenon of "quishing", a dangerous connection from QR codes and phishing. Hikers are called to always question QR codes skeptically and not to be fooled by supposed calls for donations.