Ah! Yeah - this happened at my college. They sold the [huge] parking lot adjacent to the main union area to the company that owns all the lots in the city since

Ah! Yeah - this happened at my college. They sold the [huge] parking lot adjacent to the main union area to the company that owns all the lots in the city since it was so torn up and [assuming] didn't want to pay to fix it. Before it was sold, you just bought a little placard that hung from your rear-view mirror to park in the lot. Well - the company it was sold do has been doing the QR thing for years at this point so they just implemented it after a quick repaving and that was that. It's been a few people at this point who simply make a clone of the parking website and slap their own QR code stickers on a bunch of the spots. If you saw a ticket on the windshield upon returning to the car, most people assume they made a mistake so they are double paying for the spot. Once to a phisher and once to the actual company in the form of a ticket. Company has sent out a ton of emails about it but because the lot is so high-volume [it's next to a new stadium so it's no longer just business hours college parking] the ability to make a quick buck so easily is just...there. No changes being made by the company - you'll see a thread pop up on the city subreddit about it every now and then where others share their own experiences - and that's as far as it goes.