Overview
- Regional police first alerted residents to suspected quishing via missed-delivery flyers with QR codes, including reports from Thuringia and Magdeburg.
- DHL said the QR codes it examined resolved to official dhl.com subdomains and requested only a Z-code for routing, not personal or payment data.
- Fact-checkers such as Mimikama reported that AI-generated images contributed to the scare and that no customer harm has been confirmed.
- Police in some locations are still assessing whether fraudulent notices were actually distributed and whether any victims exist.
- Authorities urge people to avoid scanning unknown QR codes or sharing data from unsolicited notices and to confirm shipments through official apps or websites.