# A Recent Kiosk Dine-and-Dash Scheme That Makes You Lose Faith in Humanity

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> Last updated: 2026-10-28
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## Overview

A nine-panel webtoon-style post shared on theqoo was originally posted by the Instagram account rimdeom.log with the warning, “Watch out for people using kiosk orders to make you pay for their drinks.” It described a customer finding a drink in the cart at a café kiosk that they had not added. The post called this a “popular tactic these days.” The basic idea is that another drink is added to a customer’s cart without their knowledge, increasing the amount they are charged.

The theqoo user who reposted it said they wanted to share it especially so that their older parents would see it. The poster wrote that the comments were more shocking than the webtoon. They included similar accounts, among them cases where someone added drinks while appearing to help an older customer, only to be caught during checkout, and cases where the person responsible was a teenager. However, the post consists entirely of webtoon screenshots and the poster’s account of the comments, so it is unclear how widespread this tactic actually is.

## The Situation Depicted in the Webtoon

The webtoon begins with an ordinary visit to a café. The protagonist, wearing yellow, stands in front of a kiosk and says, “Ugh, I’m exhausted.” Seeing that an iced Americano costs 4,500 won on the menu, they grumble, “That’s too much.” Still, they decide to get one because they are tired and place their order at the kiosk. This is panel 2 of 9.

In panel 3 of 9, the protagonist points at the kiosk and asks, “What’s this?” The caption at the bottom reads, “Something seemed off.” In panel 4 of 9, this unease becomes clear in the amount displayed: the total looks wrong at checkout, showing 15,700 won. The protagonist wonders, “Am I seeing things because I’m tired?” then says that the cart contains drinks they did not add.

The cart contains a vanilla latte for 5,500 won, a coconut latte for 5,700 won, and an iced Americano for 4,500 won. The three drinks add up to the displayed total of 15,700 won. A warning at the top of the post reads, “Watch out for people using kiosk orders to make you pay for their drinks.”

## Reactions to the theqoo Post and Its Comments

The theqoo user who shared the post included a link to the Instagram post and said they especially wanted to show it to their parents’ generation. They added that they found the comments particularly shocking, including an account of someone adding drinks while appearing to help an older customer, only to be caught at checkout. Other comments reportedly described being targeted by a teenager or nearly being targeted by a young person.

The poster also offered some precautions: check the order carefully when placing it and keep the receipt. They added that this was their first time posting an Instagram information post on theqoo’s Square board and asked people to let them know if there was a problem with it.

## Authenticity Debate

The central question is whether the “paying for someone else’s order” dine-and-dash tactic described in the post is actually widespread, or whether that impression comes from a single webtoon and anecdotes in its comments.

### Arguments That It Is a Popular Tactic

The webtoon and the comments are the basis for this view. The webtoon shows a specific scene in which the cart contains a vanilla latte for 5,500 won, a coconut latte for 5,700 won, and an iced Americano for 4,500 won, adding up to 15,700 won. The poster also said that the comments included several accounts: drinks being added under the pretense of helping an older customer, someone being targeted by a teenager, and someone nearly being targeted by a young person. Those who take this view argue that these accounts support the post’s description of the tactic as “popular these days.”

### Arguments That the Claim Is Unverified and Exaggerated

The opposing view questions the nature of the evidence. First, the source is an Instagram webtoon. Neither the post nor the theqoo thread mentions independent verification, such as a police announcement, news coverage, or an official statement from a business. “Popular” is simply the post’s own description; it provides no number of victims or other statistics.

The comment anecdotes are also unverified. Since they are reports on an anonymous online community, there is no way to confirm the amounts, locations, or whether the actions were intentional. Adding something to a cart while trying to help is entirely different from deliberately making someone pay for another person’s order, and it is unclear whether any of the comments distinguished between the two. Moreover, the webtoon screenshots included in the theqoo post show only some of its nine panels, so they do not reveal how the protagonist noticed the unfamiliar drinks, who added them, or whether the payment actually went through. It could therefore be argued that the presence of drinks the customer did not add is not enough to conclude that someone deliberately committed a dine-and-dash.

Neither side has enough evidence to reach a firm conclusion. For now, the poster’s account that several commenters described similar experiences remains alongside the fact that there is no official evidence to substantiate the claims.

## Trivia

- In the opening, the protagonist grumbles “That’s too much” at the sight of an iced Americano priced at 4,500 won. In panel 4 of 9, they say, “That’s really too much,” after seeing the 15,700-won total.
- The bottom of the webtoon also includes the harsh line, “And they say there are so many damn freeloaders like this.”

## Sources

- theqoo, [“theqoo - A Recent Kiosk Dine-and-Dash Tactic That Shatters Your Faith in Humanity”](https://theqoo.net/hot/4384286245?filter_mode=normal)

## Verified facts

- The TheQoo post shared a screenshot of a webtoon-style post from the Instagram account “rimdeom.log.” (Single-source confirmation)
- The Instagram post carried the warning “Beware of someone asking you to pay for them at a kiosk” and described it as a “recently trending scheme.” (Single-source confirmation)
- In the comic, a person tried to order an iced Americano (4,500 won) at a café kiosk. (Single-source confirmation)
- At the payment stage, the amount shown was 15,700 won. (Single-source confirmation)
- The cart contained a vanilla latte for 5,500 won, a coconut latte for 5,700 won, and an iced Americano for 4,500 won, none of which the person had added. (Single-source confirmation)
- The poster said they hoped older people, including their parents’ generation, would see the post, and urged readers to check their order details carefully and keep their receipts. (Single-source confirmation)
- According to the poster, comments included accounts of people pretending to help middle-aged and older people, secretly adding drinks to their orders and charging them before being caught, as well as accounts of people who had been tricked or nearly tricked by teenagers or young adults. (Single-source confirmation)