As the world’s leading experts on preventing cyber fraud met in Singapore this week, conference attendees were offered the chance to queue-jump by scanning a QR code.
More than 50 people fell for the mock scam, set up by organisers to raise awareness of “quishing” — or QR phishing — attacks, where hackers trick victims into exposing personal data to malicious websites.
“Don’t worry, your mobile phone was not infected with malware and we are not sharing your credit card details,” Jorij Abraham, managing director of the Global Anti-Scam Alliance, reassured attendees. “But it does mean that everybody — even you — can be scammed.”
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