Despite not placing an order, Burger King customers in the United Kingdom received a blank receipt today.
At approximately 5:15 a.m. on Tuesday, thousands of Britons received a bizarre receipt from the restaurant that said, ‘Your order will be available to pick up at Burger King.’
Although the entire amount and location of the order were left blank, the email read: ‘While you’re waiting for your lunch, let us know how you appreciated purchasing online.’ It will help us improve the experience.’
Hundreds of terrified clients hurried to see whether their accounts had been ‘hacked,’ and then phoned their banks to report a fraudulent transaction, only to discover they had not been charged.
Since then, Twitter has been inundated with amusing memes from fans mocking the restaurant for’sending a passive hostile email because you haven’t ordered from them in a while.’
Meanwhile, Dominos Pizza poked fun at Burger King, tweeting, ‘Confirming we also ordered nothing from Burger King.’
Specsavers responded, saying, ‘They should be ordering anything from us ASAP.’
Despite the fact that Burger King has yet to issue a comment, Joshua Butcher claims he contacted their support line and was informed it was merely a ‘technical fault on their end.’
‘I can guarantee you that you were not charged for this,’ he said in an email sent to his social media account. This happened due to a technical glitch on our end. Please ignore this email.’
Debbie Clapham, of Cambridge, deleted the email after getting it because she ‘thought it was junk’ – but she questioned how they obtained her information since she ‘couldn’t even remember enrolling with them’.
‘Thanks Burger King for the blank email receipt, truly scared me that someone hacked my account,’ one Twitter user commented.
‘Burger King had me hurriedly checking my bank this morning fearing I’d been scammed or something,’ said another user from Manchester.
Stephen, a Twitter user, stated he hasn’t visited the company in ‘about nine months’ and questioned how Burger King obtained his email address.
Customers in Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France have all reported getting the’suspicious’ email.
MailOnline has reached out to Burger King for comment.
