Open Post: Hosted By All The Free KFC Chicken Scammed By Chinese Students

Back in 2018, a hungry and enterprising student known only as Xu from Jiangsu province in China, along with a group of his friends, helped themselves to the biggest and longest chicken fry ever, and thanks to a bug in KFC’s app, they inhaled all of that deep-fried, gut-busting goodness for free.

According to The Daily Mail, the five college students involved in the shady chicken ring (which sounds like the chickens were forced to perform bizarre sex acts after hours in someone’s basement while surrounded by pervy freaks placing bets), have been handed their sentences, and all of the poultry hustlers are heading to the Chinese pokey.

via The Daily Mail:

A Chinese student who exploited a glitch in KFC’s online ordering systems to get endless free chicken has been jailed. The 23-year-old, identified only as ‘Xu’, managed to take £6,500 in free food in just six months after uncovering the glitch back in 2018.

He also shared the secret with four friends, who took a combined £15,500 of chicken before they were stopped.

This week, Xu was jailed for two and a half years for fraud and fined £700 over the scheme, while his friends were jailed for between two years and 13 months.

The total amount in US dollars for this deep-fried swindle amounts to approximately $31,000, which is a lot of repeat trips to KFC to launch an epidemic of artery roadblocks and bleeding ulcers among the student population of Jiangsu.

Xu discovered the glitch while buying food using a voucher from KFC’s phone app in April 2018, according to Chinese state-run media.

He found that by switching between the KFC app and the company’s store on WeChat, China’s equivalent of WhatsApp, he could place an order using the voucher though it still remained in his wallet on the other account.

This effectively generated infinite free food vouchers, which he used to buy £6,500-worth of chicken between April and October that year.

Xu kept some of the food for himself, but also sold cut-price meals to his classmates.

The incarceration part of this venture isn’t going to be as fun as the crime part, and I doubt they’re going to find fried chicken on their dinner menu, but who knows? Xu’s entrepreneurial spirit will serve him well in the big house, where he can buy cut-rate cigarettes in bulk from a shifty warden and sell them at a huge profit margin to his fellow inmates. Clearly, this isn’t the last we’ll be hearing from Xu and his merry band of chicken pirates.

Five students in China have been jailed for taking advantage of a loophole in KFC’s online ordering systems to get free meals and resell them for profits.https://t.co/FIY3HeMLPo

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