QR Code Press

Last QR code from the Taylor Swift mystery challenge was in Montreal

04/30/202404/29/2024 Sam Lambert

After fans searched around the world for a number of barcodes, the last one was located in Canada Entertainer, musician, entrepreneur, and performer Taylor Swift is well known for her love of dropping hints for mystery challenges around her music, and a recent challenge had fans looking for QR code displays around the world. Swift often tucks Easter Eggs into her performances and albums Recently, the performer challenged her fans, also known as Swifties, to spot posters and murals displayed in locations around the world and that showed a QR…

Small cities and towns increasingly turn to QR code heritage projects

04/19/202404/18/2024 Julie Campbell

Moose Jaw, Canada is among the latest examples of this use for quick response barcodes. In a recent Heritage Advisory Committee meeting for the city of Moose Jaw in Canada, the attendees viewed a presentation introducing QR code plaques as a way to share the city’s history with residents and visitors. The appeal includes consumer familiarity with the technology and affordability of implementation The presentation was given by Jessica McNaughton, a local business owner of memoryKPR, which provides businesses and individuals alike with the opportunity to store, save, and protect…

Gmail boarding passes and movie tickets can now be stored in Google Wallet

03/19/202403/18/2024 Sam Lambert

Google Wallet - Gmail app on phone update

In the mobile app’s latest update, support was added to draw these documents from Gmail Recent Google Wallet updates have given the mobile app the ability to support drawing travel boarding passes and movie tickets right out of a Gmail email account. The new feature for the app was originally announced in developer release notes Once Google Wallet has been updated, users will be able to automatically use the confirmation emails they receive for their boarding passes and movie tickets to import those documents into the app. Both boarding passes…

FCC reminds consumers to keep ahead of the latest quishing strategies

02/26/202402/23/2024 Jesse Collins

Scammers are increasingly using QR codes as consumers become comfortable with scanning QR codes can be found virtually everywhere, but while they boost convenience in an affordable way, quishing scams are becoming a growing problem. As is the case with virtually everything digital, scammers are abusing QR codes Scanning QR codes is a practice used for everything from reading a menu at a restaurant to paying a utility bill. That said, as they are also a simple way to share personal information, they have also been worked into scams –…

QR code accidentally shared online leads to $60,000 restaurant bill

01/12/202401/11/2024 Stephanie Beck

A woman in China mistakenly posted the quick response barcode online, letting others place orders. A woman living in China was understandably shocked, when she received a bill for about US$60,300 (430,000 Chinese yuan), after having accidentally shared the ordering QR code online, giving others the ability to place food orders on her tab. The woman was posting pictures on WeChat and mistakenly included the table’s ordering barcode. Though the woman’s intention was only to share pictures of the food she had ordered at the hotspot restaurant when she and…