A woman in China
was shocked to receive a bill for 430,000 yuan (60,000
USD) at a restaurant after she accidentally posted her QR code to order food online, and other
to order food online, and other netizens began to place additional orders on
additional orders to it.
This was reported by UNN with reference to the South China
Morning Post.
Details
According to
the newspaper, a Chinese resident surnamed Wang said she only wanted to publish
photos of dishes from a restaurant she visited with a friend on November 23.
November, but accidentally added a QR code to her
post a QR code that was stuck on the table for
to order and pay for the food. Although
she only posted the photos on her WeChat Moments page, a restricted
access, which can only be seen by her WeChat contacts, the list included a
a large number of people who started scanning the code.
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Wang realized something was
only when the restaurant staff approached the group to confirm whether they had
they had placed an order for 6,000 yuan. Upon noticing this, the staff
initially thought there was a glitch in their ordering system. But then the final
the final bill came to 430,000 yuan.
Wang discovered that people had used the QR code she
accidentally posted. A screenshot of the order posted online showed
that netizens ordered 1,850 servings of duck blood, 2,580 servings of
squid and 9,990 servings of shrimp paste.
Unable to stop the
unable to stop the continuous flow of orders, the restaurant eventually moved the group
customers to another table, as it was unable to stop or track the
the intruders.
Although Wang said
she was not forced to pay the bill, she noted that the prank caused the
the restaurant a lot of trouble, and warned others to be careful when posting
photos on social media to avoid accidentally leaking personal
information.
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