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SINGAPORE – Using multiple accounts with fictitious names on food delivery applications, a 27-year-old man ordered food using the addresses of his neighbors and instructed passengers to deliver meals there.
He also promised passengers that he would pay them after delivery, but never did.
Leonard Tan Tong Han was sentenced to seven days in jail on Thursday (September 17) after pleading guilty to four counts of cheating. Each charge was for a separate incident that involved a different delivery customer.
During sentencing, Chief District Judge Toh Han Li considered nine other similar charges, involving other delivery passengers.
Court documents establish that Tan ordered more than $ 700 in food using various accounts on the mobile apps of food delivery operators GrabFood and Foodpanda. She had used fictitious names and random phone numbers to set up the accounts.
Between February 25 and March 14, he ordered that food be delivered to either of the two neighbors’ floors. He also opted to pay for orders in cash upon delivery of the food.
Each time the food arrived, Tan would instruct the passenger to leave the food outside the unit.
He also said that he would pay the passenger for the meal through the PayLah electronic payment applications! or PayNow.
After the courier followed his instructions and left, Tan then collected the food but did not make the payment.
Court documents establish that on two occasions, the passenger returned to the unit where the food was delivered, after not receiving payment from Tan.
On both occasions, the neighbor on the flat informed the passenger that he had not ordered food. The cyclist later made a police report.
One of the neighbors also made a police report after an instance on February 25, saying that his address could have been misused.
It is not stated how Tan was finally captured.
Court documents indicate that GrabFood and Foodpanda lost $ 718.54 in total due to Tan’s offenses.
Since then, Tan has made a full refund to both companies. She will begin serving her sentence on October 1.
For each crime of cheating, Tan could have been jailed for up to three years and / or fined.
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