Regina Woman Says She Lost $1,500 in Pizza Delivery Scam

CBC ^ | Jun 02, 2021 | Daniel Reech

[The Right Edge]

OH! But a cashless society is the way to go! I once, years ago, banked with a bank in nc. I started noticing that every time I would use the atm, there would be an associated identical withdrawal (that you did not make). When I brought it to the attention of the people in charge of the bank... They refused to look into it! Instead, they wanted give me the money that I had been cheated out of and to turn the matter over to the local police. Yeah! With that degree of cooperation... I end up the fool defrauding the bank. I pulled my money out and walked away. Yeah, I lost some money... but at least I stayed out of jail over it. A word of advice... STAY OUT OF nc!

[alexander_busek]

The restaurant is liable for letting a food order out the door without payment. She should consult an attorney.

That attorney would then tell her: Yes, the restaurant is liable for letting a stranger come into the restaurant and pay for and leave with your pizza. The court will probably award you at most the cost of a new pizza.

Furthermore, what pizza company - or any restaurant for that matter - takes card payments at the door???

The article is unclear, but I assume that the restaurant does NOT accept card payments at the door. But the grifter who showed up at the victim's door demanded card payment, and the victim was apparently happy to comply.

The grifter then used the card info to empty the victim's account.

This is my reconstruction of the events - the article could have been much clearer in this respect.

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

In my opinion, the negatives of having a debit card for out-way far outweigh the positives.

True!

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

That’s my point: The guy shouldn’t have left with the pizza without paying.

Who says he didn't pay?!

The perp was hoping to score perhaps hundreds of dollars - so why not invest a couple of bucks up-front?

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

Maybe the restaurant should be held responsible for giving her order to a guy who was “unsure who originally made the order” and who then used that order to steal her money.

Pizza orders are not "confidential information" deserving of any special protection. It's not like the lady had ordered a Pap Smear. It's not like the pizzeria is a daycare center, and some stranger had shown up and offered to take someone else's child home with him.

The perp probably listened in on the telephonist taking the order and volunteered, "Hey, did [insert name of victim, which he had overheard] just place that order? Hey, I can deliver it to her! [Pretends to phone victim, who apparently agrees to allow the friend to bring her the pizza] We're really good friends. But she recently moved, and I haven't visited her at her new apartment yet!" OR "Can you give me her exact address, so I can enter it into my navigational computer? I don't know her actual street number, and might have a problem finding the optimal route to her from this pizzeria - I've never driven from here to there before!"

Regards,

[logi_cal869]

Yes, it could have been more clear. My first read interpreted it differently.

[zeugma]

Don’t use your bank card for transactions like this. You have unlimited liability on them. Use an actual credit card.

[Leaning Right]

> for out-way far outweigh <

Ha! I knew “out-way” looked wrong, but for some reason I couldn’t figure out how to replace it. I guess I should have paid more attention in those English classes.

[alexander_busek]

Almost 30% of delivery drivers admit to taking food from an order, according to a new survey

I was a delivery driver for five years, and all I ever did in that time was carefully pry the slices of pepperoni off of every pizza, lick them thoroughly, and then neatly place them back onto the pizza.

So don't be givin' me no jive about "taking" food!

Regards,

[Svartalfiar]

Thanks for mentioning that. I would have thought that all charges over a debit card’s limit would have been declined. I’m going to check with my bank tomorrow.

Yup USAA does that sometimes too. I'll forget to pay it off, or just had a big purchase'll put me around the limit. They'll allow a couple overlimit charges, then randomly start declining. Sometimes it's a couple dollars over, sometimes a couple hundred. Weird.

[Tired of Taxes]

Pizza orders are not "confidential information" deserving of any special protection. It's not like the lady had ordered a Pap Smear. It's not like the pizzeria is a daycare center, and some stranger had shown up and offered to take someone else's child home with him.

Pizza is pretty important. Just look at all the comments on this thread...

Okay, I'm kidding about the pizza. But, the CC info is important. Depending on what actually happened (which is unclear), an argument might be made that the restaurant did not protect the customer's payment info.

When a company is hacked, and the hackers steal customer info, sometimes the customers sue the company. In the case of the pizza, I've been assuming the thief paid for the pizza and then delivered it to the unsuspecting customer. If that's what happened, then the pizza place must've released the customer's address somehow (on the receipt, maybe?). OTOH, if the customer gave her CC info to the pizza place when she ordered, and the thief got her CC info from the pizza place, then the pizza place didn't protect her CC info, either.

I'm not arguing that the customer should sue, but I would not trust a pizza place that didn't protect my info. IDK how the thief carried out his crime. The pizza place released that pizza to someone unknown. Customer is lucky she wasn't poisoned.

Why are we all so interested in this case? We all must love pizza (just had some tonight - lol).

[Don W]

The 3 places I order delivery from get paid when the food is in my possession.