Fake QR Code Payment Stickers Found on EV Chargers

[DonTom]

"Unauthorized QR-code stickers are appearing on some EVCS chargers, branded "payandzap" or labeled "Authorized Guest Checkout." These are not from EVCS and are not an authorized way to pay. Please do not scan them or enter any payment details."

 

[LarsMac]

That actually took longer than we should have expected.

 

[DonTom]

That actually took longer than we should have expected.

It is just one more thing to add to the countless reasons for my very bad case of SmartPhonePhobia.

How I wish they could be uninvented.

Just as some here wish EVs could be uninvented. . . .

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[CharlesinGA]

I never scan QR codes.

Charles

 

[DonTom]

I never scan QR codes.

Have you yet been to an RV park where that was the only way to run their washers and driers?

FWIW, I avoid the QR codes as often as I can. I avoid turning on my Smartphone as much as I can too.

Unfortunately the world has changed. We must own a smartphone to get many things done and I expect it will get worse--a lot worse--in the next few years.

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[John From Detroit]

It is just one more thing to add to the countless reasons for my very bad case of SmartPhonePhobia.

How I wish they could be uninvented.

Well there still are a few "Basic" phones out there. not as basic as say a 1980s Ericcson I888 but still basic.

However think about this. in 1960 for the first time in history the TV networks used a computer.. A Univac, to predict the winner in a presidential election.

It said NIXON (If you do not recall Kennedy won)

Even your basic smart phone today has more computer than that 1960 big as a house Univac . Heck a 1970 HP Pocket Calculator has more power.

When I was in college that's the field I hoped to get into.. Turns out I'd not have been that good at computer design... Or at least for other reasons I don't think I would... I lack one quality needed. I can however beta program.

 

[Mr Lars]

Well there still are a few "Basic" phones out there. not as basic as say a 1980s Ericcson I888 but still basic.

However think about this. in 1960 for the first time in history the TV networks used a computer.. A Univac, to predict the winner in a presidential election.

It said NIXON (If you do not recall Kennedy won)

Even your basic smart phone today has more computer than that 1960 big as a house Univac . Heck a 1970 HP Pocket Calculator has more power.

When I was in college that's the field I hoped to get into.. Turns out I'd not have been that good at computer design... Or at least for other reasons I don't think I would... I lack one quality needed. I can however beta program.

We now know, if not for the massive cheating in Cook County Illinois, and a couple voting precincts in West Virginia, JFK would not have ‘won’ that election.

 

[DonTom]

Well there still are a few "Basic" phones out there.

That has nothing to do with the issue. See here for the reason for my SmartPhone Phobia. I wish I could get by without having one at all!

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[John From Detroit]

We now know, if not for the massive cheating in Cook County Illinois, and a couple voting precincts in West Virginia, JFK would not have ‘won’ that election.

I do not know.. Though the "Cemetery vote" in Cook County elections was a runnng joke for a long LONG time.. I do not recall ever reading where it was proven.

ON the other hand more recent allegations of voter fraud... "We have no evidence your honor"

 

[John From Detroit]

That has nothing to do with the issue. See here for the reason for my SmartPhone Phobia. I wish I could get by without having one at all!

-Don- Reno, NV

Yes but if it is OFF not only can you not pay for this or that.
You can not make or receive calls either.

Oh you can turn on DO NOT DISTURB.

In my case, being a "Bionic man" (Not quite as advanced as Mr. Austin, just a pacemaker and a CGMS) the phone is the readout for the Monitor (CGMS) and should it for example wake me up at oh say 3 am "YOU ARE LOW" I can choose to ignore it and risk or deal with it. On the 2nd alarm level I deal with it


(On the first often my body deals with it without the brain's help)

How important is that? Well at 5AM the coffee pot starts. I usually get up around 6am because There is NO LIFE B 4 Coffee! (I'm limited to 20 char's for that)

So dealing with it can make the difference between waking up and smelling the fresh brewed coffee.... and waking up ... dead.

 

[DonTom]

Yes but if it is OFF not only can you not pay for this or that.
You can not make or receive calls either.

Back in the old days when they had analog cell I had a Motorola flip phone that I was very happy with.

The stupid digital smartphones slowly turning into a necessity came later and is the cause of my Smartphone Phobia. Cannot live without a Smartphone these days, so even I must have one for many everyday things that never used to require such.

And that includes being the ONLY possible way to charge up at many EV Charge stations. And parking meter payments. And to wash clothes at RV Parks (I have little doubt it will be all RV parks in a few years).

-Don- Reno, NV