Uber Responds After Driver Texts ‘I Want To Kidnap You’ To Woman In Gurugram

A Gurgaon resident got the chills when they received a weird text message from an Uber driver in the middle of the night. The terrifying text message made them so scared that they ran back home to safety on a Saturday morning. Reddit user kushpyro1 shared their horrifying experience on r/gurgaon, posting the shocking message received by the Uber cab driver.

The resident received a message saying “I want to kidnap you” after booking a ride to a railway station

The user reportedly booked an Uber Priority Sedan Cab to go to Anand Vihar Terminal. They texted the cab driver mentioning their location and put their phone in their pockets to bring their luggage downstairs. When they checked their phone later to reconfirm the OTP, they were shocked to see the weird message in the Uber chat from the Uber cab driver.

The rider quickly took a screenshot of the chat, canceled the ride, and returned home.

The user revealed,

“I am shivering while I am actually writing this right now. I have a train in 1 hour and God knows if I will reach there on time”

They added,

“When he was about to arrive, I thought to myself to check the OTP once and flashed open my Uber Chat where driver sent me a bizarre message”

They shared a screenshot of the brief conversation between them and the cab driver

In the post, the screenshot showed the brief conversation. The rider wrote,

“I am here. Anand Vihar Terminal drop. Please come”

In response, the driver wrote,

“Go to Anand Vihar. I want to go to kidnap you happily”

They added,

I don’t know what impulse kicked into me (4am, barely any sleep and panic after reading text from a guy who is literally few seconds in front of me) but I thought to cancel the cab, when I began to cancel he immediately cancelled himself and I ran back into the house with my luggage. I happened to take a SS just a moment before it was cancelled (sic)

According to the Reddit post, the assigned driver’s name was Chandan, and he was driving a Maruti Suzuki Dzire. The frightened and confused rider asked if they could report the incident. They wrote,

“Now, I’m left wondering – what just happened? Is there somewhere I can report this incident? I’m genuinely scared, and unsure how to now proceed onto reaching my station (sic),”

Here is the viral Reddit post

Uber Driver Freighting Behaviour (14th December)
byu/kushpyro1 ingurgaon

The post garnered mixed reactions from Reddit users

While some users assume that the word “drop” would have been autocorrected to “kidnap”, some users suggested posting the incident on X (formerly Twitter) to reach out to Uber as they are active there.

A user wrote,

“It looks like auto correct gone wrong. But good thing you took another cab. This was freaky”

Another user added,

“Feels like translation mishap or autocorrect. Coz the sentence does not seem to make any sense at all.”

To this, the rider replied that they tried all

“8+ native language queries to English and nothing translates to “kidnap” except the word “apaharan”

Uber responded to the incident

The user raised the issue with the Uber Response Team who told them that the driver will be indefinitely banned from accepting or seeing their ride requests. The rider mentioned in a follow-up post,

“We will contact the driver to understand the issue from their perspective. Disciplinary actions may include: Sensitising the driver about the impact of their actions/words. Termination of their Uber account”

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