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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the vomitamonos dept.

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


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @12:07AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @12:07AM (#713463)

    Better solution: get another ride from the Uber driver that scammed you the first time, and accidentally slice his throat from ear to ear with a straightrazor. You'll probably get billed for blood removal, but at least this time the charge will be legit.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Knowledge Troll on Friday July 27 2018, @04:53AM (1 child)

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Friday July 27 2018, @04:53AM (#713559) Homepage Journal

    Yeah but if you do this no one at the trial is going to thank you for improving the Uber customer experience. They'll just use loaded words like "murderer" and "psychopath" and maybe "premeditated" but not "public service" and "hero."

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday July 28 2018, @12:18AM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday July 28 2018, @12:18AM (#713884)

      The key is to steal a cellphone to hail the Uber with, noone will ever know...

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @06:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @06:20AM (#713576)

    Do you do that before or after you get to your destination? Or do you do it at a stoplight, get out and wait for another Uber?

    Remember kids, timing is everything.