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There's a meta question here of the feedback loop. If I pay via coins / credit card the parking meter will tell me "Okay, you have XY minutes left." If I pay v
by er4hn 5y ago
There's a meta question here of the feedback loop.
If I pay via coins / credit card the parking meter will tell me "Okay, you have XY minutes left." If I pay via the app, does the meter update as well? If I pay via the scam app... presumably there is no feedback loop, though people may not realize this.
As a second order effect, wouldn't it make sense to investigate the domain and find the owners? Assuming they are paying some other party to put these stickers up the owners of the domain are the real problem. Telling residents to educate each other feels similar to the trope of you are a "victim of identity theft" when Equifax loses your personal details.
- dcdc123 5y agoI imagine they are using pay stations rather than meters. If that is the case I don't think people would ever look at it after paying via app.
- post_break 5y agoIt goes off your license plate. They scan it as they go. There is no meter.
- ents 5y agoMy cities app tells you time remaining and will send a notification, all via App.
- JoblessWonder 5y agoThe scam website is passportlab.xyz (Thanks for including the URL in the news article I guess?) Looks like it is registered with Google Domains. They use magic.link to send a URL. They are using Stripe to process payments. Any one of these could lead to the perpetrator. (It looks like Stripe might have shut them down already though.)