A noodle stall in Toa Payoh is looking for a customer who had mistakenly transferred S$475 to them.
In a Facebook post on 21 April, Jia Cheng Noodle House appealed for the person to come back and get a refund.
Source: 佳城 on Facebook
According to the post, the erroneous transaction was made at the stall’s outlet in Block 233 Toa Payoh Lorong 8.
They are now “urgently seeking” the individual.
Source: 佳城 on Facebook
In a subsequent video, the stall owner said this happened at around 11.40am.
Source: 佳城 on Facebook
She asked the person to look for her immediately.
Speaking to Shin Min Daily News, the 45-year-old stallholder named only as Ms Lin (transliterated from Mandarin) said it was a particularly busy lunchtime at her coffee shop as a nearby hawker centre was closed for cleaning.
After the busy period was over, she checked her NETS transaction record and was shocked to see that her mobile payments exceeded S$600.
She normally earns S$200 to S$300 after lunch, so this was hundreds more than her usual sales.
Showing the Chinese daily a PayLah transaction of S$475 made at 11.47am, Ms Lin was puzzled at how it came about.
She said she could understand if a customer had ordered fishball bak chor mee or laksa for S$4.50 and keyed in a wrong decimal place.
However, none of her dishes costs S$4.75.
Source: 佳城 on Facebook
Ms Lin had also tried to view CCTV footage, but it had been deleted due to a faulty memory card.
Ms Lin said she has been running the business for five years, but had opened her stall in Toa Payoh only on 10 April.
This was the first time something like this had happened, she noted.
Ms Lin added that she’s “pretty sure” the customer is either an employee of a nearby factory or a resident.
She has posted a number of appeals online, hoping to find them via social media so she can return the money.
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Featured image adapted from 佳城 on Facebook.