Parking ticket scams have been around for a while but technology is allowing the scams to evolve.
One scam is when someone places a parking ticket on your windshield. The ticket is not real. The fine is not real and even the barcode to pay it is not real.
But people scan the barcode on the fake ticket and then give the attacker their credit card information.
More recently, there has been an international wave of text message parking ticket scams. The scam starts with a fake text message like this.
There is a link in the text message to pay the ticket and avoid a fine. This is not a link to the parking authority. But Google is a trusted domain so Apple allows the link in the text message in.
If you tap on the link you are taken to the attacker’s web site and you get to give the attacker your information and/or get your phone infected.
If see if it is real, from another browser window go to the city’s web site and see if there is really a ticket.
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