Prankster David Thorne behind McDonald’s hoax
by Andrew Ramadge
News.com.au
October 14, 2009
A FAKE memo claiming McDonald’s stores deliberately rip off customers has been revealed to be the work of the same prankster behind an infamous email about a seven-legged spider.
The document, mocked-up with an official McDonald’s Australia letterhead and signed by fictitious managing director “Robert Trugabe”, outlines a secret plan to save money by leaving items out of drive-through orders.
“If the girls leave one item out of every second or third order, this adds up to several thousand dollars per week revenue,” it says.
“We need to work out if there is a way of making this a procedure without making it documented.”
The memo became a viral hit, making its way to email boxes and consumer blogs around the world and prompting an official response from the fast food company.
The front page of McDonald’s Australia’s website currently features a customer alert denouncing the fake memo as an “email scam”. Continue reading “McDonald’s Hoax Hoaxer Revealed”