It is as simple as a push of a button. Ordering through your phone – directly from the restaurant via a food delivery app.

But this streamlined process is being targeted by scammers at the expense of business owners.

Last month, Roman Jowkari at MoMo Donair thought he was speaking to an Uber Eats representative, only to discover that that was not the case.

“My dad picked up the phone, and our tablet has been running slow, so he said, ‘Hey, we noticed that your tablet has been running slow,’” Mohammad Jowkari, Roman’s son, told CityNews.

“It perfectly matched what we needed, and my dad basically gave our email and the password.”

However, Mohammad Jowkari, a cyber security student at BCIT, knew right away that something was wrong.

“He basically asked for the two-step authentication cod

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