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Bengaluru: A woman received a call from a scammer posing as a Swiggy delivery agent for an order she never placed.
The woman was not at home when the scammer called about an order she never placed. (Representative Pic: Getty Images)
A new scam might be brewing in Bengaluru, if a recent post is anything to go by. A woman received a call from someone posing as a Swiggy delivery executive. Since she wasn’t home, she asked him to leave the order at her doorstep. But when she returned, there was no parcel in sight, leaving her both puzzled and alarmed.
“A strange incident happened in Bengaluru,” wrote a Redditor who goes by “Subject-Fisherman-90″ in the “r/bangalore” community.
In the following lines, he shared that his girlfriend received a call from a delivery person regarding an order she had never placed. Since she wasn’t home, she asked the “delivery guy” to leave the parcel at the door.
“Today in the afternoon my girlfriend got a call from a person saying he was calling from Swiggy, he had her parcel with my name and asked to open the door,” wrote the man on Reddit.
He explained, “She [his girlfriend] lives in a society where there is nobrokerhood installed and always gets notifications to let people in and after her confirmation only people get in society and at that time she got no notification. Since she wasn’t at home that time she asked him to keep it at the door.”
But when she returned, there was no package to be found. “After reaching home she didn’t find anything at her door. Something doesn’t feel right,” the Redditor continued.
The Bengaluru resident further shared, “Strange thing is I didn’t place any order for her also none of my delivery accounts has her address saved with my name. She checked for similar things in her accounts and also asked around if anyone placed any order but no one did.”
In response to the Reddit post, someone said, “It’s a standard scam don’t worry. I have read multiple similar scam stories with slight variations. Parcel would be cash on delivery. Your gf would have paid money and there would be some cheap food items or empty box.”
“I had a similar incident, not Swiggy but once I received a mail from max fashion wannabe email(max fashionzz) saying my order was confirmed and would be delivered. I NEVER ORDERED ANYTHING. I checked many times all of my records and I never ordered. I also couldn’t cancel my order cos the website only had “tracking” and the rest of the website was fake! I reported and forgot about it but after a week they delivered something I had “ordered”. I lived in the same nobroker community but we didn’t remember which order was being delivered and let the guy in. We got delivered a sweater which I had never ordered in my entire life. To date, I have no clue how that happened. Thank god it wasn’t anything awful but I was careful,” recounted another.