Strange "bomb alley" makes shippers miserable, people are forced to warn

(NLDO) - A series of shippers were tricked into delivering goods to an alley in Rach Dua Ward (HCMC). Too upset, people living in the alley hung many warning signs.

For nearly a year, Alley 20, Ben Nom Street, Rach Dua Ward, Ho Chi Minh City has become a hot spot for a sophisticated scam targeting technology drivers and other services. Many shippers have had to laugh and cry when delivering goods to the designated address but there is no one to receive them.

According to the reporter, the alley is less than 100 meters long, with normal residents and nothing special. However, according to the residents, for nearly a year now, the alley has suddenly become chaotic due to a large number of delivery drivers pouring in day and night.

A series of warning signs were posted in alley 20, Ben Nom street.

VIDEO : "Bomb alley" in Ho Chi Minh City makes shippers miserable, people are forced to warn

A resident in the alley said that every day there are many shippers ringing the bell, knocking on the door, banging on the door, calling on the phone, many people even curse because they have been bombarded with goods, sometimes food, drinks, sometimes clothes and all kinds of goods.

At first, the locals thought they had the wrong address, but later discovered that this was a trick by one or more professional scammers to cause confusion and terrorize one of the households here.

A warning sign is placed on the house number that is frequently called upon for deliveries and other services.

According to the drivers, the scammers' method is to order online, from food, drinks to goods worth several hundred thousand dong, and then provide an address in this alley. When the driver delivers to the destination, the phone number cannot be reached or is blocked. In some more sophisticated cases, the person ordering places an address nearby, then leads the driver around and takes them to alley 20, Ben Nom street.

Not only delivery, some other services such as door repair, house repair, passenger transport, gas calling, calling for a car to take people to the hospital are also reported at this alley address. "Near Tet, many taxi and technology car drivers are called from Dong Nai , Ho Chi Minh City to pick up people, but when they arrive, their phones are turned off or they are given a fake address, very pitiful" - a resident in alley 20, Ben Nom street, said.

People's lives here are disrupted.

Faced with this situation, residents in the alley proactively wrote a series of warning signs for shippers and drivers with the following content: "Drivers, please pay attention, this area is often scammed when booking cars, placing orders, losing items, stray pets, stray people... Everyone read the signs, do not knock on the gate of any house in the area"...

Regarding the reason for posting the sign, many households in the alley said that their lives were disrupted, even prolonged stress due to the sound of cars coming in and out, the sound of delivery drivers calling at the gate, knocking on the door and being disturbed. Even at noon or midnight, there were drivers knocking on the door. "The alley is full of old people, being disturbed makes people's lives miserable" - said one resident.

The blue gate, often used by scammers to show shippers the goods.

Not only households were affected, many drivers also said that they were bombarded with goods, led everywhere and in the end no one received the goods, but when calling the order number, the phone was locked, this person used many junk SIM cards.

While waiting for the authorities to intervene, many shippers are still falling into the trap. Some groups of technology drivers have shared warnings about this alley on social media and in driver groups to avoid "losing money unjustly".

Source: https://nld.com.vn/la-lung-hem-bom-hang-khien-shipper-khon-kho-nguoi-dan-buoc-phai-canh-bao-196250715105800871.htm