Be wary of unexpected delivery boys, check IDs
Updated On: 14 March, 2022 07:03 AM IST | Mumbai | The Editorial
Keep safety doors closed at all times, to service personnel. Ask for identification—name and delivery service—of the person at the door. At times, an app gives you the name and route of the person coming to your door. Do check that. If there is hesitation and hemming and hawing, look at those as red flags

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Just when you think you have read it all, comes another report that sends the alarm bells pealing. This time it was about a ‘delivery boy’ who looted valuables worth more than Rs 10 lakh from a high-rise.
A report in this paper stated that a lady was at home with her teenage son when the doorbell rang. A ‘delivery boy’ rang the doorbell and asked if they had ordered food. When they said they had not, he asked for a glass of water. While his mother went to fetch water, the boy opened the safety door. The delivery person came inside, held a knife to the boy’s neck and asked for valuables. He left, taking valuables and threatening the family.
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