Don't scan that QR code on Montreal parking meters. It's likely a fraud.

CBC News

· Posted: Jul 15, 2025 11:34 AM EDT | Last Updated: 36 minutes ago

The bureau successful complaint of Montreal's parking meters is informing of perchance fraudulent QR codes posted connected its signs. 

The Agence de mobilité durable de Montréal said successful a media merchandise connected Tuesday that it was alert that immoderate of its signs had been vandalized with a QR codification that wasn't expected to beryllium there. 

The bureau hung the signs connected parking metres crossed the metropolis to promote radical to download their caller parking app, Mobicité. The signs person nary QR code, but immoderate users person reported seeing 1 posted connected them.

Do not scan the QR code, the bureau said, it whitethorn nonstop you to a fraudulent oregon malicious website.

"Our squad is moving hard to place and region them arsenic rapidly arsenic possible," the media merchandise said. "Thank you for your vigilance and for reporting immoderate suspicious signs to us."

The bureau changed its parking app from P$ Service mobile, which allowed users to wage for parking, to the caller app, Mobicité, to let further features successful the coming years. 

For now, the Mobicité app volition let users to lone wage for parking, similar the aged app did. But down the line, Laurent Chevrot, the wide manager of the agency, says the app volition adhd different functionalities implicit the adjacent fewer years, specified arsenic the quality to supply parking accusation and services similar lawsuit service. 

"With the different application, that wasn't possible," helium said.

Mobicité rolled retired astatine the opening of June. It outgo $719,000 and took 10 months to produce.