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Maybe it’s the hotel double scamming you. “These assholes are scamming you. Here, have some of our hotel pizza for forty bucks.”
Nice room, bet the pizza from room service is over $40
Yes, but how’s the pizza?
I worked in the hotel business for 13 years. Here’s what’s really going on.
The hotel is paid to recommend various restaurants. Anyone who won’t pay, they try to keep them from advertising anyway.
Maybe there is some credit card scam at this hotel. But I doubt it.
Who doesn’t just use their phone to look up places nearby anyway?
Pizza scam? Guys gotta be a real pizza shit
That a MASH episode?
I used to hear about this at the hotels near Disney World. Lots of flyers, call and give your payment info over the phone.
I haven’t heard anything about this scam in a few years though. It could still be happening, but I haven’t heard anything about it.
Isn’t the hotel under surveillance? Why not report the scammers to police?
So when people get into apartment buildings and slip food menus under the doors. Are all of them scams? I used to get them a lot before covid. Rarely get them now.
Sometimes you have no other option but to fight flyer with flyer
maybe the hotel is just discouraging people from using the flyers so that they can “suggest” the pizza places that have given them kickbacks
What kinda hotel are you staying at? Huge room, multiple mirrors, unique patterned carpet? Seams you have expensive taste
Literal r/PizzaCrimes
That’s just what Big Hotel wants you to think.
They can try. They won’t outpizza the hut
A long time ago when I was a scumbag doing fraud and other kinds of scams. This was one of my favorites. I pull a Chinese restaurant menu and change the number to a burner phone number I had using Microsoft paint. Then print out a few hundred of those and distribute them on hotel doors.
Then I’d just sit back and wait for the orders to come in. Get their card information and sit on it for a few days till they forgot about the Chinese food they never got. Then proceeded to rack up tons of online purchases of items I could sell quickly on offerup. I’m not surprised this is still a thing. It’s cheap and easy to setup. So yeah, be careful of this. Basically it’s best to Google places to eat.
I’ve never had a reason to tell this story but this seems appropriate.
I went on a trip with my girlfriend at the time and we saw a pizza flyer on the ground when we opened the door. Not thinking anything of it, we placed an order. This was about 15 years ago when orders were still placed normally and then you’d pay when they go to the door.
Well fast forward about 10 minutes and we see something on the hotel TV that said, “Do not order from these places” much like that one in OPs picture. So my girlfriend and I decided to just not answer the door if they showed up.
They knocked on the door about 4 hours later somewhere in the realm of 2 in the morning. Was super strange.
What’s this world coming to?? Next thing you’re going to tell me is that there are no horny MILFs in my area waiting to contact me.
/r/pizzacrimes
Do people not have Google Maps?
The next evolution of the scam is to copy that warning, but add in a phony front desk number.
I’ll be perfectly honest, if I got a flyer like this from the hotel, and received a fake flyer, I’d call that number constantly and order pizzas with fake credit cards. I love messing with scammers, especially when I’ve had a bad day.
This is rampant in tourist areas. In general, don’t order off flyers. It’s nicer now with Uber eats, but still. If you are desperate, at least look for an address to look up on maps, and the same goes with a phone number. You can look up the restaurant name as well to see reviews. Some of them may have unrealistic prices, like 100 wings for $10 or 10 wings for $8 and 25 wings for $10. If you do make an order, pay attention to how they take it. If you order a pizza, they should ask you toppings, crust, size, etc and not just say ok. They also should be trying to upsell you drinks or desserts. Scam places will try to skip past the actual order and just get to the credit card info. Lastly, make sure they deliver to front desk and meet for payment/tip. Most hotels shouldn’t allow them up to the room anyways, but you don’t want a delivery person at your room, no matter how many ‘adult’ videos you’ve seen.
You know, fuck scammers, but that’s a pretty good scam idea
Is that your room or the lobby?
The biggest red flag here is how scammers are getting right outside my door.
So that means if i order and want to pay cash on delivery, I’m never getting my pizza?
How does this scam work, it comes with a website to put the credit card info without offering to pay via PayPal or other more secure way? Or you call and give your information by telephone?
Plot twist the hotel’s front desk is stealing your credit card information
Someone get kitboga on this.
“Please do not give these scammers your credit card information. Please call us since we already have it.”
Everything is a scam nowadays
Omg. Just landed in Miami last night. My gf was like why is there pizza flyers on the floor. I suggested we order a pizza. She wasn’t hungry so we just went to bed.
Everything is a scam
Plot twist. It’s a scam from the hotel to make you paranoid and get you to buy their food instead of ordering out.
Hi I’d like to order a large scameroni with stuffed crust.