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This is what happens when the didn't-earn-it crew roles in


Last time I used deliveroo I got a spam/scam phone call 20 minutes later. I presume the drivers sell customer names, addresses, and phone numbers.


These apps don't usually give the driver or restaurant access to the customer's phone number.

They use a proxy system where the driver has to call a standard number provided by the app and then input a code to identify the specific customer.

That's typically only available while the order is in progress.


Do you know for sure that's the case for deliveroo?


Yes.

I have been called by a variety of restaurants and drivers 7 times since March 2023 while using Deliveroo - who all came through the same London phone number.

I don't even live in London.

A search online for the number (020 3871 3395) shows that others have been called by both drivers and restaurants on this number. [1]

[1] - https://who-called.co.uk/Number/02038713395


How does the fact that you can't see their number imply that they can't see your number?



Because a very few rich people are eating all the pies.


Why break your back when the prospect of owning your own home is so remote? Better to drop out.


Not sure if related but back in the day there was an aleph null associated with ADOM https://web.archive.org/web/19990428120058/http://www.aleph-...


It's called virtue signalling


Except those are actual holidays, where schools and shops close. See the difference?


'I built a tool' no you didn't, you wrote a program. Stop larping


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