people here are too paranoid about scams. for example my local friends think I am insane for picking up unknown numbers, even though 99% of the time it's a legit call from delivery/bank/whatever.

few days ago a post went viral on social media where somebody claimed there is a new "scam" where people pretending to be water company shut off your tap manually, and hang a qr code with a "fake website" to pay your bills. so I tried scanning the qr code in the image and it leads to... the actual water company website. today the water company had to make a facebook post confirming that the qr code is indeed real...