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Drivers: BE AWARE of this scam – IMPORTANT – please read
CON Artists Target Earnings of Uber drivers
CBS Chicago – March 27, 2017 10:03 PM By Charlie De Mar
A driver tells CBS 2 she was robbed of her earnings when she was tricked by a phishing scam.
The Uber driver says earlier this month she received a series of calls from what appeared to be a legitimate representative from the ride-sharing app. “They started asking all sorts of direct, pointed questions to find out information about my Uber account,” the driver says. The caller pressured her to share her Uber login credentials.
“They said if you don’t we are going to deactivate your account right now,” the driver says. “I’m thinking, ‘Oh, come on. I just made a bundle of money today, and I haven’t cashed out.'”
The driver was locked out of her account, and her earnings for that day were stolen. Uber emailed her and said she had been the victim of a “third party phishing attack.”
“The most intelligent people sometimes do the dumbest things on earth, and I guess this was my dumb thing for the year,” she says. Uber says they are always tracking new scams in an effort to fight back against phishing attacks like this one. This same scam is going on in a number of cities across the U.S. The driver you heard from was reimbursed by Uber. The company reminds its drivers to never give out their personal information over the phone.
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Uber Phishing Scam Hack and Steal Uber Drivers Current Earnings
Thursday i was pinged at the buffalo airport . As soon as i accepted I received a phone call from someone claiming to be from uber . He said you just accepted a ride from mark . I said yes . He told me to cancel the ride and do not charge the rider as he was paying with a fraudulent credit card. I did as he said and he told me he was giving me $30 for doing that. He than told me to wait on hold while he tries to get me something else . he comes back and says check your text messages . It says I qualify for $350 bonus. I signed in with my email and password to receive my bonus . the next day i get an email from Uber saying that all my bank information was changed . they did not get me but they even changedmy Social Security number. I change my password put everything back the way it was and cashed out. The most important thing you can remember who we will never ever make a phone call. This is very
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Thursday I was pinged at the Buffalo airport. As soon as i accepted I received a phone call from someone claiming to be from uber. He said “you just accepted a ride from Mark”. I said yes. He told me to cancel the ride and do not charge the rider as he was paying with a fraudulent credit card. I did as he said and he told me he was giving me $30 for doing that. He then told me to wait on hold while he tries to get me something else. He comes back and says “check your text messages”.
It says I qualify for $350 bonus. I signed in with my email and password to receive my bonus.The next day I get an email from Uber saying that all my bank information was changed. …they even changed my Social Security number. I logged in and changed my password and put everything back the way it was and cashed out. The most important thing you can remember [Uber] will never, ever make a phone call to you [while you’re on a ride and ask you to login into your account].
Here are two more drivers account of the scam:
The person calls on an Uber line (one that has been used by a customer when they contact you) and they identified themselves as Uber support. Then they act as if they have all your information and ask you to verify it cause you are about to get a bonus for the high amount of customer compliments and your high ratings. Once you give the information they place you on “hold” and process your “bonus” and bam, your account is drained of what ever is in it. and just as you realize the truth the person hangs up.​
Here is the second:
What this guy did to sound believable was order a ride and then call me from the Uber cloaked phone number. He said “We can tell you’re on a trip so we’ll give you $50 to compensate you for the trip for taking the survey for us.” He asked me to pull over somewhere safe so I could answer the questions. Then the trip canceled. So I’m thinking this dude is plugged in to the Uber GPS system and can track me moving. Anyway he asked for my phone number and I gave it to him and he sends me the text you.
They will pretend to you know your account details (name, email address, car type, etc) and then ask for further information, like your password. They want to get access to your Uber driver account so they can change your Instant Pay details or your Uber credentials so they can steal your earnings.​
How to Avoid Uber Phishing Scam
Like I said earlier, never give out your password or any other piece of information over the phone, email, or text. Do NOT type/enter your Uber login info into your phone while on a phone call with anyone – the scammer on the other end of the call may be able to ‘see’ what you are entering!
Use your Uber app to contact Uber and let them know that someone just tried to scam you.​
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see also: https://uberpeople.net/threads/this-happened-in-buffalo-scammed.180082/
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt.
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When Uber wants to verify your identity, they prompt you to allow access to your phone camera and then smile for a photo when you try and log in.
Many dumb people are smart enough to recognize a phishing scam. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Often very smart people are also very gullible.<footer></footer>
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First… Uber needs to send out an email. Banks do this whenever there’s a phishing problem
Second for new drivers training video include this and stress Uber NEVER calls IRS does this
Third I speculate new driver the main target
Fourth make YouTube video Uber may not like this
Finally Seinfeld it and tell them you’ll call them back
Another question does a number show up or is no ID or unknown-
I’ve received 3 separate emails from Uber warning me of this scam that I can recall.
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