Now, researchers have warned a staggering four out of the first five results returned when asking Google for a "bitcoin qr generator" led to scam websites–potentially furthering negative public perception around bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
If a user of one of these scam sites tries to generate a QR code for their own bitcoin address, it will create a QR code for the scammer’s wallet, researchers from ZenGo, a bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet provider, found.
