  Alternative theories of gravity and the parameterized deviation approach
allow black hole solutions to have additional parameters beyond mass, charge
and angular momentum. Matter fields could be, in principle, affected by the
additional parameters of these solutions. We compute the absorption cross
section of massless spin-0 waves by static Konoplya-Zhidenko black holes,
characterized by a deformation parameter introduced in the mass term, and
compare it with the well-known absorption of a Schwarzschild black hole with
the same mass. We compare our numerical results with the sinc approximation in
the high-frequency limit, finding excellent agreement.
