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What's the defense against this for the average person? Every city has a different parking app or site, there's no way for someone to know like with their bank.
The solution is to have a unique ID for the parking area instead of a QR code, and you enter the ID into the official parking app for the city. There is no way to direct money to anything but city coffers with this approach. This is already what many municipalities do. I don’t know why people are throwing their hands up at technology and using quarters when the apps are much more convenient (especially since you can…
Apps are convenient but quarters are secure