Creepy Uber Eats driver in the UK asks customer for sex and poses as a woman on the app
The 20-year-old customer was shocked and creeped out by the text she received from her delivery driver when she tried to order UberEats.
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A creepy UK UberEats driver bombarded a customer waiting for her food with messages asking for sex in exchange for £10,000 ($A19,800).
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, The Sun reports.
Tia O’Reilly, 20, from England, watched the driver 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.”
Ms O’Reilly 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?”
‘Are you married?’
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.
Ms O’Reilly 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, England.
She and her boyfriend then ordered pizza and fries from a local restaurant.
Referring to the driver, who picked up the order around 2.30am, Ms O’Reilly 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 British man offering £5,000 (A$10,000) and then £10,000 for sex.
Ms O’Reilly 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, Ms O’Reilly 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.”
Ms O’Reilly 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.
Ms O’Reilly 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.”
Ms O’Reilly 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.
This story originally appeared in The Sun and was reproduced here with permission.
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