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Booky app promises to beef up verification procedures after food delivery prank on Guanzon

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Police are already investigating the incidents, according to outgoing Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon. ABS-CBN News/File" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/life/02/02/20220202-guanzon-cries-harassment-over-prank-food-deliveries.jpg"/><figcaption>Police are already investigating the incidents, according to outgoing Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon. ABS-CBN News/File</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA -- Booky app on Wednesday promised to improve its verification procedures to avoid suspicious transactions after the platform was used for a food delivery prank on outgoing Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Rowena Guanzon.In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bookyapp/photos/a.1586738691556498/3318511755045841">statement</a> released on its Facebook page, Booky confirmed that it has received reports of fraudulent orders made for Guanzon&#x27;s office through one of its partners.&quot;This is not something we take lightly and is an experience we are learning from,&quot; it said. &quot;We are in contact with our restaurant partners to help create guidelines and necessary verification procedures for suspicious transactions in order to avoid this from happening in the future.&quot;Booky also reminded the public to &quot;not involve businesses and hardworking Filipinos in their politically motivated agenda,&quot; saying it causes &quot;more harm to restaurants, delivery riders, and operations teams than to targeted recipients.&quot;&quot;Please empathize with people doing honest work, most especially during these hard time,&quot; it said.On her last day at Comelec, Guanzon fell victim to a <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/02/22/guanzon-cries-harassment-over-prank-deliveries-on-last-day-at-comelec">bogus food order amounting to over P5,300</a>.The outgoing commissioner described the prank as &quot;terrible.&quot;&quot;These bad people have no mercy on the delivery riders. That is part of their harassment against me,&quot; said Guanzon, who made headlines the past several days over the expected decision of the Comelec First Division on the disqualification petitions against presidential candidate Ferdinand &quot;Bongbong&quot; Marcos, Jr.

The app was used for a food delivery prank on outgoing Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon.