A woman has taken to social media to narrate how she narrowly escaped boarding a vehicle masquerading as the ride-hailing car she booked.
The X user, who goes by the name Allison on X, explained that she booked the ride from one of the popular ride-hailing apps in Nigeria and got a female driver.
She then got a notification that her driver had arrived. When she went outside, she saw a female driver in a car wearing sunglasses.
However, she noticed the car was different and when she asked, the driver claimed her Toyota Matrix — the car showing on the app — was at the mechanic’s and she’s the same driver on the app. The driver told the woman she was there to pick her up.
Before the customer could enter the car, she saw a Toyota Matrix pull up with a female driver wearing sunglasses. Her car was the right model and had the right plate number detailed on the app.
When she entered the Toyota Matrix and explained everything to the driver, she said she was confused too.
The customer said that she got the news that as soon as she left with the driver in the Matrix, the other driver left without picking the passenger she claimed to have come for.
Other X users explained that the first woman was probably a kidnapper who is monitoring her app.
The ride-hailing app customer said she has now reported the case to the DSS.
Her tweets:
“Something veryyyyyyy strange just happened 💀
I booked a ride and it’s a lady with a black Toyota Matrix. She called to say she’s outside. I go out, she’s parked at house 5. Once I came out, a Toyota Corolla parks just in front of me (a lady too) and asks me to come in.
I looked up and saw the Matrix and I told her I think the person she came to pick up isn’t out yet cos my app says a Matrix, not Corolla. Tell me why this lady goes yes I know, my Matrix is at the mechanic, so I’m using this one now and I came to pick you up.
I told her she didn’t come to pick me up cos I can see the Matrix I’m supposed to go with and she still insisted that it’s me she came to pick up, that her Matrix is at the mechanic.
Matrix drives down to where we were, I checked my app and the number plate was what I had on the app and I went with her. Even the Matrix was confused after I told her what happened cos how exactly???
Idk if that was an honest mistake or it’s something else tbh”
