Taking a picture of a particularly delicious dinner you get at a restaurant to post on social media is pretty much par for the course these days. And in most cases, it’s not just harmless but can actually help the business. However, one woman got a bit more than she bargained for after posting her meal online left her footing a $60,000 bill, per the South China Morning Post.
The Chinese woman, identified only by her last name, Wang, made a grave mistake.
She was out for dinner with a friend in Kunming, South West China, on November 23 when she took a picture that happened to include their table’s QR code.
The code is used for you to scan and place an order from your table, this way you can pay on your phone and not need to interact with a cashier. Obviously, this backfired.
Wang soon received a bill for 430,000 yuan ($60,500).
She thought she’d only shared the photo with her contacts on WeChat, but someone else managed to get a hold of it and order tons of food.
People online placed tons of bogus orders, and all of them got added to Wang’s tab. There were 2,580 orders for squid, 1,850 orders of duck blood, and 9,990 orders of shrimp paste.
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Thankfully, she wasn’t held accountable for all of those fake orders.
The restaurant soon realized what was going on and moved Wang and her friend to another table so they could get a different QR code and only pay for what they actually ordered.
The establishment is said to have updated their ordering system since the snafu so that you have to be physically located within a certain distance of the place to be able to order.
Whew, that was a close one!
