Check a QR code at the charging station

Stuck-on QR codes are appearing at charging stations that lead to fake payment pages. Charging never starts, and the card details are gone. You can tell from the address – here you can have it checked before you type anything in.

First things first: do not open the code and do not enter anything before you have read the address. Most phone cameras show it before you tap – that is exactly the text that belongs in here.

How to spot a stuck-on code without any technology

Run your finger over the sticker. The genuine code is usually printed on or sits under a film. A stuck-on label with an edge over it is the clearest sign – often you can still see the code underneath at the border.
Compare with the station next to it. At a charging park all the stations look the same. If only one carries a code that sits differently or looks different, that alone is enough.
Read the address before you type. The camera shows it. The operator name has to be directly before the top-level domain: with enbw.com/pay everything is fine, with enbw.com.pay-xy.top the address belongs to pay-xy.top.
Better to use the app or the charging card. Anyone starting through the provider's app does not need the QR code at all – and the trick comes to nothing.
Report it if you find a faked code: to the operator, and through this site, so that others are warned.

What this check can do – and what it cannot

It checks the address, not the page behind it. Nothing is called up here; a faked page learns nothing from your check.
An unremarkable result is not an acquittal. The register lists 11,755 operators – this site does not know the vast majority of their addresses and can only test for traits that are independent of the list.
An unfamiliar address is not necessarily fraud. Payments often run through a service provider with an address of its own. That is why there is a warning there and not an accusation.
The directory of operator addresses comes from the same hand-checked sources as the fault numbers – only what appeared on a page of the operator itself is included.