A woman in Singapore attempted to pay for S$79.60 worth of drinks at a Yi Fang Fruit Tea store using a falsified PayNow screenshot. The incident was caught on CCTV, and the woman was initially able to leave with her order. However, she later returned and paid for her drinks, apologizing to the store.
SINGAPORE: A woman who tried to pay for S$79.60 worth of drinks at Yi Fang Fruit Tea , a shop at Clarke Quay , with a falsified PayNow screenshot returned to the store to apologise and pay in full.
The incident occurred at around 3 pm on Dec 18 and was fully caught on CCTV footage shared by Yi Fang Fruit Tea with. The woman can be seen inside the shop, where she ordered a total of six drinks. She can also be seen leaving the shop with her order. Her order was taken by Mr Zhong, the store’s operations manager, who was the sole staff member at the time, as the other employees were on a lunch break. He toldthat she told him she made the payment via PayNow, and then left while her order was being prepared.When the woman returned 15 minutes later to collect the drinks she ordered, Mr Zhong told her the shop had not yet received her payment. She then showed him a screenshot of a PayNow transfer record.
Mr Zhong offered to pay for the drinks the woman ordered, as the incident occurred under his watch, but his superior refused, telling the operations manager it was a lesson learned. That would have been the end of the story, but in a twist, the woman came back on the evening of Dec 23, paid for her order, and apologised to the store.quotes Mr Zhong as saying that the woman said she did not intentionally leave the store without paying, but her PayNow transfer had not gone through. She also said she hoped Yi Fang Fruit Tea would withdraw the police report it had filed against her.reported on Wednesday .
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