Police in Santa Cruz, California, arrested a 19-year-old they say made fake parking tickets and put them on parked cars near the beach.
The fake tickets had a QR code that victims could scan to"pay" the fraudulent citations.
The man put the false citations — which directed potential victims to a website to pay a fine — on cars late Wednesday night, said Santa Cruz police. Damian Vela, of Watsonville, California, was charged with unlawful use of a computer system and attempted fraud, police said. According to a news release from the department, when police spoke with Vela on Thursday, he denied receiving any payments.
Investigators do not know how many fake tickets the man put on cars or how many victims may have paid the bogus fines. It's just the latest report of a scam related to fake parking tickets. In recent years, police departments around the country — including
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