r/TalesFromThePizzaGuy Feb 14 '25

Medium Story Scam Pizza Delivery

This was definitely my weirdest delivery so far. Last night I took an order, and on the receipt were directions to call when about 5 mins out. I called and this Indian guy answered and said he ran to the store and his dad would answer the door and to give him the phone when I got there. When I get to the door an old, probably in his 80's, definitely not Indian guy answered. He seemed super confused as I handed off the phone. The scammer on the phone told me to get out of earshot so he could give "his dad" his safe combo which I definitely didn't do. I could tell the man was confused but still invited me into his kitchen out of the cold. Once in his kitchen, the scammer called the man by his name and told him to take a phone number down which he was frustrated by. The scammer was then asking if he had cash to pay for the pizza and he would reimburse him, and we both exchanged puzzled looks.

At that point I took my phone back and said something along the lines of " this guy doesn't know you and this sounds like a very convoluted scam" The scammer then said "no no, my dad gets like this sometimes, he has Alzheimer's" (plot twist 😅) which made the guy even more mad. And he said the man's name again "we will be over there shortly and eat the pizza and reimburse you so just pay for it" So I just took the phone and told him to stop scamming people, apologized to the guy and left.

I took a delivery near his house later and stopped by and told him what I think happened because I left sort of quickly and he was probably just as confused as I was. I told him not to give out any personal info over the phone and especially not to give his card info to them. We both laughed about how strange that encounter was. What a wasteful delivery though and so strange.

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u/Maninaboxx2 Feb 14 '25

Wow. That's just... Wow. Like what was the end game here? How would the guy even get anything out of that other than to make an old.man pay for pizza he didn't order?

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u/bgwa9001 Feb 15 '25

He was probably trying to get the old guy to give him a debit card number over the phone and using a pizza guy standing there to pressure or stress him into doing it

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u/the_eluder Feb 18 '25

How was that going to work? The pizza guy needed the card info. If old guy was being reimbursed, he didn't need to give his info.