An incident happened at a wonton noodle stall in Johor, where a customer deliberately covered the stall’s QR code by pasting his own.
The stall owner reportedly identified the customer after reviewing CCTV footage, which showed him arriving on a motorcycle with the license plate clearly visible.
The suspect pasted his own QR code when no one was around
The suspect claimed he was just “borrowing” the money
According to Sin Chew Daily, the incident happened on 14 November at around 11:10 PM and involved a customer who had previously visited the stall several times.
The vendor and his girlfriend opened their stall as usual the next day, only to notice that the QR code had been replaced, which led them to check the CCTV footage.
When confronted, the suspect claimed he was just “borrowing” the money and promised to pay it back in a few days. Regardless, the owner subsequently filed a police report.
“The suspect admitted what he did and said he only borrowed it temporarily and would pay me back in a few days,” the owner explained.
The stall owner
The owner managed to recover RM83
The stall owner shared that he had only been running the stall for six months and, trusting his customers, usually didn’t check whether payments had been made.
“If my girlfriend hadn’t noticed something unusual about the QR code that day, we might have just assumed business was bad,” he added.
Although he eventually recovered the stolen RM83, he said the process was both time-consuming and stressful.
He hopes his experience serves as a warning to other business owners to stay alert and cautious.
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