An important warning from Lynbrook police Friday comes as a new scam targets those trying to park in the village.

QR codes popped up on parking meters and signs Monday morning. Lynbrook Police Chief Brian Paladino showed News 12 where they found the QR codes on Eldert Street And Carpenter Avenue.

The problem is the village doesn’t use QR codes for people to scan as a way to pay for parking.

"Do not use a QR code because that does not happen on the Pay By Phone meters in Lynbrook,” said Paladino.

What's more concerning is when officers scanned the QR code at the station, it brought up a website that looked nearly identical to the village's Pay By Phone parking website.

"It would get you to a point where you'd have to put a credit card number in, and they would steal your information,” said Paladino.

Walter Moldovan, of Valley Stream, parked his car on Eldert Street Friday evening and was shocked to learn about the scam.

"Everybody's trying to get your money, your information. So you have to be very careful,” said Moldovan. "That's why I never liked using the QR codes because you can never tell whether or not it's accurate, whether it's valid, whether it's not valid. You have to be very careful."

Samantha Schneider, of East Rockaway, says she and her kids come out to some of the restaurants nearby.

"I usually do the app so if I had seen the QR code, I definitely would have scanned it,” she said.

Police want people to keep an eye out while they figure out the identity of the scammer.

"It's suspicious that someone from the government wouldn't be putting the code on. So it would be our meter person who's in uniform in a village truck. They would be doing it. So someone doing it off hours overnight, it's suspicious."

Lynbrook police are still working to figure out who put up the QR codes this week. They ask anyone who feels that they could have fallen victim to the scam over the weekend to call the police at 516-599-3300.