A CREEPY UberEats driver bombarded a customer waiting for her food with messages asking for sex for £10,000.
The male delivery worker – who was posing as a woman on the app – is understood to be now under investigation but it’s unclear if they’re still working as a courier for the company.
STEVE ALLENTia O’Reilly ordered food from UberEats and then began receiving creepy messages from the delivery driver[/caption]
SBAHe asked if she was single, home alone and if she would have sex[/caption]
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Tia O’Reilly, 20, watched the pervert move closer to her home on the map tracker before he begged her not to report him to his bosses.
She told The Sun: “I’m thinking God, what am I going to do? If I lived alone it could’ve been very different.”
Tia said she has since had another UberEats driver appear as a woman on the app only to be a man when they showed up with the food.
“I don’t know how they get away with it,” she said, adding: “What exactly are the ID protocols in place to prove who they are?”
She shared the ordeal on social media, with baffled food delivery drivers claiming they are required to take selfies every hour while on shift to confirm who they are.
‘WILL YOU REPORT ME?’
Tia had just finished work in the hospitality sector in the early hours of February 4 and headed back to her flat in Hyde, Greater Manchester.
Her and her boyfriend then ordered pizza and fries from a local restaurant.
Referring to the driver, who picked up the order around 2.30am, Tia explained: “It started off when he was saying he was tired, ‘if I don’t give you the order will you report me?’
“I said ‘you accepted the order, if you’re tired don’t accept the order, go home. You can clock off at any time’.
“Then it went straight away to ‘are you married? Are you home alone? I want to sleep with you’, offering me money.”
The messages show the man offering £5,000 and then £10,000 for sex.
Tia added: “He said ‘I am a boy, can I f*** you if you break up with your boyfriend?’
“It’s there in writing that he’s admitting that he’s a man.”
Little did the man know, Tia was with her partner who was actually the one responding much of the time, saying “leave me alone”.
“As this person was texting me they were moving towards us on the map,” said Tia.
“We could track where they’re going. I live in an apartment building, so it wouldn’t have been that easy to get to my flat, necessarily.
“But if I lived in a house it could’ve been very different.”
She went on to say: “If I was a couple of young girls at a sleepover using my mum’s phone to order food what could’ve happened then?
“They don’t understand what he’s asking for and he doesn’t know who they are – then suddenly he’s at the door.”
How to stay safe
IF you feel as though you are in danger never be afraid to contact your local police force straight away.
Report the driver to Uber
Another step to take is using your Uber app to report the driver and detailing your concerns about stalking behavior.
Block the driver’s number
If you are receiving unwanted messages and calls, immediately block the driver’s phone number.
Document everything
But, even if you block their number, don’t delete any of the communications and keep everything as evidence.
This includes any record of concerning behaviour, with dates, times and locations too.
Contact the police
If you feel threatened or believe the stalking is escalating, contact your local police on 999 or 101.
Be cautious at your door
When expecting a delivery, always ensure you have a safe space to receive the order, for example a well-lit area or an entryway with some sort of CCTV.
Consider alternative delivery options
It may be worth using a different delivery app or asking someone else to collect/order for you.
What to look for as potential stalking behavior
Repeatedly contacting you after delivery, even after you’ve asked them to stop.
Unnecessary lingering at your door or in your building.
Arriving significantly early or late for deliveries.
Making personal or inappropriate comments.
Following you on social media without your consent.
Showing up at your home when you haven’t ordered food.
Tia added: “I had another one the other day – he wasn’t messaging me or anything but it said he was a lady on a motorbike and it was a man that showed up in a car.”
She had reported the creepy driver to UberEats and is disappointed they haven’t given her a definitive answer about what the company is doing.
“They are going to investigate it further and I won’t be matched with that driver again,” she explained.
“Obviously, my response was ‘I don’t think anybody should be matched with that driver again’.
“They said they’re going to escalate it to a higher team and investigate it further. That was nearly two weeks ago and I haven’t heard anything since.
“I quite easily screenshot everything, all the information I was given about the driver, so he could’ve quite easily screenshot all of my information, my name, my address, my number.”
After she shared the messages on Facebook, commenters said they had similarly had men posing as women on the app.
Tia said: “I had UberEats drivers comment on my post and say they don’t really understand how he’s got away with it because they get face ID’d every hour, just to check in that it’s them doing the deliveries.
“How true that is I don’t know. But that would make more sense.”
Tia said she has reported the incident to police and she was told an officer has asked the restaurant for CCTV of the driver.
An Uber Eats spokesperson said: “We take a zero-tolerance approach to sexual violence and harassment.
“Any reports we receive are investigated thoroughly and we have a dedicated support team who is available 24/7.
” Couriers who use the Uber Eats app are required to follow our Community Guidelines and any courier found to be in breach of these guidelines will face appropriate action, including the possibility of losing access to the app.”
The Sun has contacted Greater Manchester Police for comment.
Tia could track the driver getting closer on the map function
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