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Maybe the restaurant is part of the scam, and the food is never prepared? Still it would remain extremely easy to trace the fraudsters.

giancarlostoro 8y ago
I would be shocked if it's that simple and Deliveroo didn't bother looking better into it. If we laymen can figure this out on an online forum in a small amount of time why can't Deliveroo figure it out and report the Restaurants to the police. Worse yet, how is this happening to so many people! I swear we'll hear they got hacked in a few more headlines.
- EthanV2 8y ago
  It's possible this has already been reported to the police, but we all know they don;t tend to move to fast on things like this, and it's likely Deliveroo doesn't want to risk hurting it's own reputation by shutting out restaurants it suspects are taking part in this scam without enough solid proof that they are definitely in on it
  - giancarlostoro 8y ago
    I mean if they keep using the same exact "restaurant" whose address ends up being an Apartment... It would be really suspect. Not saying this is the case, but it'd be more obvious if it were.
    - philpem 8y ago
      If they put the FSA "Scores on the Doors" (and local council) food standards ratings on, the act of looking up the address would tell them something was up. "Address given is not registered as a restaurant or food outlet" (aka: they're not registered with the local council). I've gotten into the habit of checking 'Scores, just because of the sheer number of poor quality food places on Deliveroo, Just Eat and so on.
martinald 8y ago
Makes more sense. But still seems pretty odd and a complex scam (vs say running up fake orders directly with stolen credit cards). If that's not the case you can't resell takeaway food, so no easy way to turn it into cash.
- lultimouomo 8y ago
  To run fake orders directly you need to steal credit cards info instead of hacking a Deliveroo account, it might be harder.

giancarlostoro 8y ago

I would be shocked if it's that simple and Deliveroo didn't bother looking better into it. If we laymen can figure this out on an online forum in a small amount of time why can't Deliveroo figure it out and report the Restaurants to the police. Worse yet, how is this happening to so many people! I swear we'll hear they got hacked in a few more headlines.

EthanV2 8y ago
It's possible this has already been reported to the police, but we all know they don;t tend to move to fast on things like this, and it's likely Deliveroo doesn't want to risk hurting it's own reputation by shutting out restaurants it suspects are taking part in this scam without enough solid proof that they are definitely in on it
- giancarlostoro 8y ago
  I mean if they keep using the same exact "restaurant" whose address ends up being an Apartment... It would be really suspect. Not saying this is the case, but it'd be more obvious if it were.
  - philpem 8y ago
    If they put the FSA "Scores on the Doors" (and local council) food standards ratings on, the act of looking up the address would tell them something was up. "Address given is not registered as a restaurant or food outlet" (aka: they're not registered with the local council). I've gotten into the habit of checking 'Scores, just because of the sheer number of poor quality food places on Deliveroo, Just Eat and so on.

martinald 8y ago

Makes more sense. But still seems pretty odd and a complex scam (vs say running up fake orders directly with stolen credit cards). If that's not the case you can't resell takeaway food, so no easy way to turn it into cash.

lultimouomo 8y ago
To run fake orders directly you need to steal credit cards info instead of hacking a Deliveroo account, it might be harder.