A 19-year-old man designed fake parking tickets and put them on cars near the beach in Santa Cruz last week in the hopes of collecting real payments, authorities said.
false citations — which included a QR code linking potential victims to a website to pay a fineInvestigators do not know how many fake tickets the man put on cars or how many victims may have paid the bogus fines.
Police took the man into custody Thursday afternoon on suspicion of unlawful use of a computer system and attempted fraud. He denied receiving any payments.Offers from FOX Television stations and our advertisers
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