A certain “AJ Pande” scammed over five food delivery drivers in Pilar Village, Las Piñas City, Wednesday.
“Nakwento sakin ng mga rider na pinick up po nila sa seller ‘yung order ni AJ pande. Paiba-iba ‘yung contact number na binigay ni AJ pero same address,” said Natalie dela Cruz, the netizen who posted the photos of the food delivery drivers on social media.
(The riders told me they picked up the orders of AJ Pande. He used different contact numbers but registered the same address.)
“Wala daw pong AJ Pande na nakatira sa [nakalagay na address]. Senior ang lumalabas sa bahay na iyon,” Natalie said.
(No AJ Pande was living in the delivery address. A senior citizen went out of the house.)
There is no update yet on what happened to the food delivery drivers scammed in Las Piñas City.
In July, Senator Lito Lapid filed a bill in the Senate that would penalize a customer’s repeated and unjustified cancellation of food and grocery deliveries.
Such cancellations force delivery drivers to shoulder the cost of the unclaimed goods.
Lapid authored Senate Bill 1677, which seeks to implement one month and one day up to six months jail time for a customer guilty of canceling orders at least thrice in a month.
The violator should also pay a fine, not exceeding P100,000.
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Man scams over 5 food delivery drivers in Las Piñas
The bill also requires delivery service companies to set up a reimbursement scheme that would protect their riders and drivers, in case of cancellation of already paid orders.
Delivery service providers that would fail to do so could pay fines not exceeding P500,000, and twice the amount of unreimbursed payment to their partner delivery rider.
The company should return the out-of-pocket spending of the delivery persons for canceled orders within one day from the cancellation of orders.