Atlanta mom loses nearly $10,000 after ordering Bonchon takeout
Ordering takeout shouldn’t cost you $10k, but for one woman, ordering fried chicken turned into a full-on financial nightmare.
An Atlanta mom says she lost nearly $10,000 within minutes of placing a takeout order from Bonchon. But it didn’t happen because of a bad meal.
It was a normal food order from Bonchon until it wasn’t
The woman in question, Nina Lloyd, says everything felt routine at first. She was ordering takeout from Bonchon, nothing unusual.
Then, things shifted. The checkout page suddenly redirected to what looked like a verification step. It wasn’t obviously fake or broken. It looked different enough to feel slightly off, but it didn't set off alarms in her head for her to stop.
Minutes later, the alert came through. A $9,900 wire transfer had been initiated.
The loss hit harder than just the number, as Lloyd said the money came from her late aunt, an inheritance that had just given her family some breathing room.
Her husband had lost his job days earlier. That money was supposed to be the cushion. But now, it was gone in minutes.
Lloyd is working with her bank to try and recover the funds. But there is no guarantee yet that the money will come back.
Meanwhile, Bonchon says it is aware of the situation and is looking into what happened.
How something like this even happens
This looks like a redirect-based scam—one of the more subtle ones. The trick starts you on a legit site. Then, somewhere during checkout, you get redirected. The new page looks convincing enough to trust, so you enter your details, thinking you are verifying something. Meanwhile, attackers capture or trigger access behind the scenes.
Lloyd said something a lot of people believe: ordering directly from a company’s website feels like the safest option. And usually, it is. But as this case shows, even legit-looking flows can be compromised or mimicked closely enough to fool you in real time.
Online scams aren’t always obvious anymore. Sometimes they show up in the middle of something completely normal and rely on the fact that you’re not expecting anything to go wrong.
Source: The U.S. Sun
