- By Sahelee Rakshit
- Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:01 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Bengaluru Scam Aert: A recent post suggests that a new fraud may be developing in Bengaluru. A person claiming to be a Swiggy delivery executive called a woman. She requested that he leave the order at her door since she wasn't home. However, upon her return, she was both perplexed and concerned to see no package.
“A strange incident happened in Bengaluru," wrote a Redditor who goes by “Subject-Fisherman-90" in the “r/bangalore" community.
In the lines that followed, he revealed that his girlfriend had never made an order, but a delivery man had called her about it. She requested that the "delivery guy" leave the package at the door because she wasn't home.
“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."
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However, there was no package when she got back. “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.