Woman Allegedly Used Fake PayNow Screenshot to “Pay” for $79.60 Worth of Bubble Tea

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Chew Ming Hui
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A woman allegedly used a fake PayNow screenshot to “pay” for her bubble tea. But it wasn’t just for one or two cups of bubble tea — it was for $79.60 worth of bubble tea.

Wah… Who is drinking this much bubble tea in the first place?

Woman Allegedly Uses Fake PayNow Screenshot to “Pay” for $79.60 Worth of Bubble Tea

Last month, while many of us were busy shopping for Christmas presents, a bubble tea store at Clarke Quay found themselves unintentionally “gifting” one customer a Christmas present as well.

On 18 December, at around 3 pm, a woman managed to walk away from Yi Fang Taiwan Fruit Tea’s Clarke Quay Central outlet with $79.60 worth of bubble tea. Payment for the bubble tea was never received by the store.

According to Shin Min Daily News, the woman visited the bubble tea store when there was only one employee on duty — 27-year-old manager, Zhong. Other employees were taking their lunch breaks, and as such, weren’t in the bubble tea store at the time of the incident.

The woman donned a white top and black shorts, and carried an off-white tote bag.

Image: Stomp

At the store, the woman ordered six drinks and some other sets on the menu. Her total bill was $79.60.

I think after this, the police aren’t going to be the only ones knocking at her door — the Health Promotion Board and perhaps some financial advisors will be too.

The woman had opted to pay her bill using PayNow. But as we’ll find out later, she didn’t exactly use PayNow — she apparently used “PayBefore, then Reuse and Doctor the Screenshot”.

Knowing that the woman had opted to pay using PayNow, Zhong immediately checked with his boss whether he had received the PayNow transfer. According to Zhong, such was the usual practice at Yi Fang when it came to PayNow transfers, as most customers would pay with other contactless payment methods instead.

Zhong was then told by his boss that the $79.60 had yet to be transferred. When the woman returned to the bubble tea store to pick up her order 15 minutes later, Zhong informed her of the same.

In response, the woman showed Zhong her PayNow transfer record and claimed that she had paid for her order. The woman then left in a rush, claiming that her PHV had arrived.

Fortunately, before the woman left, Zhong managed to take a photo of the woman’s PayNow transfer record.

Image: Stomp

See anything amiss?

Yes, you’re right — the PayNow transfer record doesn’t have a date and time stamp. So, it seems to be a fake PayNow screenshot lah. And that’s what the bubble tea store suspects too.

According to Zhong, the $79.60 was never received by the store. After he took a photo of the woman’s PayNow transfer record, he double-checked with his boss whether her payment was received — it was not.

Can pay for PHV, but cannot pay for bubble tea?

Police Investigations Under Way

Zhong later offered to compensate the bubble tea store for its losses. However, his boss declined the offer, telling him to take it as a lesson instead.

The incident has since been reported to the police. Police investigations are currently ongoing.

Same Woman Allegedly Involved in Similar Incident at East Coast Road Cafe

Zhong also told STOMP that the woman bore striking similarities to the woman involved in a similar incident at an East Coast Road cafe earlier this year.

The woman in the East Coast Road cafe case had used a fake PayNow screenshot to “pay” her $272.25 bill. The woman eventually apologised to the cafe and paid the cafe the $272.25.

In CCTV footage of the East Coast Road cafe case, the woman was carrying an off-white tote bag — a bag that looked very similar to the one carried by the woman in the Yi Fang case.

So, what do you think? Was the PayNow screenshot in the Yi Fang case similarly doctored as well?

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Chew Ming Hui
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