Fraudulent billing is a rising trend hitting Uber riders. Sometimes it is for rides they never got, but increasingly they are billed for cleaning of messes that never happened, often false claims of vomit.
So what happens if there was never any vomit?
Some passengers have to send three or four emails to resolve their complaints. They must tell Uber that there was no incident, and then wait for the company to investigate and, if it agrees, reimburse their money.
Several victims told el Nuevo Herald about their vomit fraud cases.
[...] Vomit fraud is not the only way that some Uber drivers are cheating customers.
Some drivers never pick up the passenger but then charge for the trip. Some combine frauds and report incidents of vomit in trips that never took place.
Source: The Miami Herald : It's called vomit fraud. And it could make your Uber trip really expensive
(Score: 4, Insightful) by corey on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:39PM (2 children)
And this is yet another reason why I continue taking taxis and am yet to create an Uber account.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @12:58AM (1 child)
I've never caught an Uber either. If this happened to me and I had to fix, I'd bill them at my hourly rate for wasting my time. Unsurprising how many chancers back the fuck off once I tell them that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @06:03AM
What about contesting the credit card charge?