Food delivery rider warns others after alleged ‘loanshark harassment’ ordeal

A food delivery rider has gone viral after warning fellow riders about what he believed was an alleged “loanshark harassment” tactic that wasted several delivery riders’ time.

Food delivery rider victim of alleged ‘loanshark harassment’

In a video uploaded to Instagram by @klynzz_txyy on 7 July, the Original Poster (OP) claimed several food delivery orders to the same condominium unit turned out to be fake cash-on-delivery (COD) orders.

The clip, captioned “WHAT A SCAM”, showed the OP speaking to other delivery riders who had also arrived with food orders for the same condo in the west.

According to him, the unit belonged to a landlord who had rented a room to a female tenant.

He told another delivery rider: “This one is scam one. This one should be loanshark harassment because it’s landlady and tenant.”

The OP also told the condominium’s security that he believed the landlord was an innocent party.

“The tenant is the one got problem. Maybe the tenant got do loanshark all these things, that’s why kena loanshark harassment,” he said.

Several delivery riders made wasted trips

While speaking to another delivery rider, he said an earlier rider had cancelled a S$50 order after receiving no response from the customer.

He also shared in the video that the listed contact number was a Malaysian number that nobody answered.

The OP estimated that, in the time spent resolving the fake orders, they could have completed two other deliveries instead.