WIPERNOTE
Safe QR: how to spot a real WiperNote sticker
Fake QR codes stuck over real ones are a known scam, used to send people to fake payment or login pages. A genuine WiperNote sticker is easy to check before you type anything.
Check these three things
- The address. A real sticker always opens a page on wipernote.com, such as
https://wipernote.com/s/AB3CD. Your camera shows the address before you open it. Anything else (a shortened link, a different spelling, another domain) is not us. - The sticker. It carries the WiperNote logo, the line “Scan to message the driver” and a short code printed under the QR. Owners stick it on the inside of the windshield, so a sticker on the outside, or one stuck on top of another, is a warning sign.
- The page. The page shows the WiperNote logo and asks only what you want to tell the driver: a reason or a short message. That’s all it needs.
What WiperNote never asks the person scanning for
- Payment, a card number or a “parking fine”
- A password or signing in to any account
- Downloading an app
- Your name, phone number, email or ID to send an alert
- Personal or banking details of any kind
If something looks wrong
- Don’t type anything and close the page.
- Tell us at wipernote.com/contact where you saw the sticker, so we can warn the owner.
- If you already entered card details, call your bank straight away.
For owners
- Stick your sticker on the inside of the windshield, where nobody can cover it.
- Glance at it now and then. If something is stuck on top of it, peel it off.
- If your sticker was photographed, copied or misused, replace its code from your account: the old QR stops working at once and you print a new one.