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Using multiple accounts with fictitious names on food delivery apps, a 27-year-old man ordered food using the addresses of his neighbors and instructed passengers to leave meals there.
He promised passengers that he would pay them after delivery, but never did.
Leonard Tan Tong Han was sentenced to seven days in jail yesterday 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 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 opted to pay cash for orders upon delivery. Each time the food arrived, Tan would instruct the passenger to leave the food outside the unit.
He said he would pay the passenger for the meal through PayLah electronic payment applications. or PayNow.
After the messenger followed his instructions and left, Tan collected the food, but did not pay.
Court documents indicate 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.
Court documents indicate that GrabFood and Foodpanda lost $ 718.54 in total due to Tan’s offenses. Tan has since made a full restitution to both companies.
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