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Probably some group checking to see if their stolen credit cards are working, by ordering pizza to this guys address.
by arzel 6y ago
Probably some group checking to see if their stolen credit cards are working, by ordering pizza to this guys address.
- djhworld 6y agoReply All did a show about this https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hgd2 https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hgd2
- RufusJacksons 6y agoLove that episode. Every time I order from Dominoes I use the name Adam Pisces now
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- johnfn 6y agoDang - that was really good, but at the end I feel unsatisfied because it doesn't feel like they found the right answer!
- shalmanese 6y agoOne theory they never covered in the show was that it could be a hedge fund doing this to generate receipts so they can analyze sales velocity. That's part of how the Luckin Coffee fraud was uncovered.
- pixiemaster 6y agobut then they would already be paid, right?
- 4ad 6y agoWhy do they keep using the same address again and again?
- gregoriol 6y agoIf that's true, why would they use the same address that often? isn't it the best way to be flagged and uncovered? it would be so easy to pick random addresses
- numpad0 6y agoI looked up Google Maps and zip code for Turnhout where the house in the article is is 2300. So the address must be like [number] [street] 2300(Turnhout), Antwerp, Belgium. I don’t know why it’s not Albania or Andorra but makes sense it’s not Zambia.
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoIt's assuming the police will do anything about it. But the probability they even take the time to listen to the old man story is pretty slim.
- wccrawford 6y agoHe said his friend also gets a lot of these deliveries, sometimes on the same day he does. He suspects it's someone they know. It's been happening for 9 years and yet none of these businesses have managed to put him on a blacklist? I smell something fishy. The article started to read like The Onion at one point, and I suspect it's not even real.
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoMaybe the shops are laundering money, and pretend they are loosing money with their "victims", while actually registering a sale to allow dirty money to come in. This solves the problem you get when laundering money with a food joint: you need customers.
- foepys 6y agoWhy would they not just randomize the addresses? Or just deliver to an office where they could claim 100€+ deliveries?
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoI don't know, the restaurants I suspect of laundering money around me don't bother faking customers. They are just empty most of the time. Maybe they noticed that those adresses never cause problems (single old people) and are close enough to not be too annoying to deliver to? Maybe they are just too lazy to do more, and it's enough for it to work? Maybe they are using a lot more addresses but we don't get that information? But there is a limit to the addresses you can use, and you are supposed to have repeated customers. Maybe there is something special about those adresses we don't know about?
- crizzlenizzle 6y agoI’m wondering how this works actually. Are they actually delivering pizzas or are those pizzas with expired ingredients or just fake boxes? I guess the latter doesn’t make sense since you’d notice more registered sales than what your raw materials are able to yield.
- draw_down 6y agoHe says he doesn’t pay and sends them away, which implies the orders aren’t prepaid, as they would be if card testing
- hellofunk 6y agoHe said the restaurants are losing money because he does not pay them.
- jagged-chisel 6y agoSomeone is paying them. Why continue delivering orders to someone who you think ordered, but then isn't paying?
- hellofunk 6y agoWhat you’re saying makes sense but it contradicts what is written in the article. Also, there are many many different restaurants involved in this, so any one restaurant blacklisting him would not change it.
- jagged-chisel 6y agoThat interpretation is fine. He says "I have always refused the deliveries, so I have never paid for anything," but that's no indicator for whether the restaurant was already paid.
- bobwernstein 6y agobecause you have to pay at the door. so nobody is paying
- meowface 6y agoNo, the likely harasser is searching for delivery services that allow cash on delivery for payment. They just don't use any services that only have pre-payment options.
- zxcvbn4038 6y agoThat is what I am asking, if your delivering pizzas to the same address for a decade and your not getting paid, why keep delivering pizzas? Surely you can blacklist an address or ask for payment up front? There can’t be so many pizza places in delivery range of this guys house that you can order every day for ten years and nobody catches on that this address never pays.