SINGAPORE: When her parents noticed that food delivery payment for their hawker business was still not in after two weeks, Pooja decided to check their account information.
She found that the bank account number for the payment for delivery orders on foodpanda had been changed.
The transaction history showed that between Oct 10 and 14, about S$3,000 was paid to an unknown bank account, said Pooja, 36.
She suspected that her parents had been the victims of a scam.
Pooja, who declined to give her full name, made a police report on Oct 24. She also contacted Grab, foodpanda and Deliveroo.
Her parents, who run a stall selling Indian food, have been working with food delivery platforms for seven years, and this is the first time they have fallen prey
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