A WOMAN in China was slapped with a whopping £48,000 food bill at a restaurant after revealing a QR code to trolls.
Xiao Wang accidentally shared the menu code, used to order and pay for food online, next to the image of her hotpot meal.
Xiao Wang was slapped with a whopping £48,000 food bill at a restaurant after revealing a QR code to trollsWeibo
WeiboShe shared the menu code used for ordering food online which others used to place meal orders for her table[/caption]
Wang said she was trying to send pictures of her dinner when she included the code stuck on the table unknowingly.
She posted the food pictures on her WeChat Moments page which could be seen by all her contacts.
While the list of contacts was restricted, it however included a large number of people who began to scan the code and started to order food online.
Wang only became aware of the blunder when the restaurant staff came to confirm the bill of her table – which had come up to be around £48,000.
Wang immediately deleted the post, but new orders kept coming to her table.
A picture of her bill later shared online revealed trolls had ordered some 1,850 portions of duck blood, 2,580 portions of squid, and 9,990 portions of shrimp paste – with each item priced at a few quids.
Members of the staff told they could neither track down the trolls ordering the food through Wang’s code, nor they could stop the orders from coming in.
The restaurant did not make Wang pay the bill and moved her to a new table, ignoring all the new orders made via the code.
Lin Xiaoming, a lawyer from Sichuan Yishang Law Firm, told Fengmian News that the fake orders were not Wang’s original intention, making them invalid.
She added that restaurants facing such a case could cancel the order and ask for compensation from the people who made the fake orders, in incase of any financial loss.