Be careful everyone, this is not just in California, this scam has been popping up all round the UK in the last six months or so.
The ‘convenience’ of having to use one of a seeming myriad number of piss poor apps to do something that used to be possible in a few seconds with a simple machine makes this enshitification all too appealing to scammers.
And good luck trying to get a useful response from any of the ‘legitimate’ parking companies when their wretched app fails to work. The only thing they seem to be able to do quickly and reliably is issuing parking penalty notices. They are right down there with Ticketmaster for being companies you can’t help dealing with, but really wish didn’t exist.
