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Uber Vomit Fraud

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

canopic jug writes:

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: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @02:17AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @02:17AM (#713518)

    I want what I want, as cheap as possible, fuck everyone else and damn the consequences

    That's a wordy way of saying "capitalism."

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Friday July 27 2018, @03:33AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 27 2018, @03:33AM (#713543) Journal
    It's an urban environment with mobility. Serial cons/theft works when you never have to stick around for the consequences or run into people who've played your game before. You can bet that the drivers in question get away with the scam because they aren't likely to run into the people affected by their scams in the past. Capitalism shows up as a factor because there aren't many economic systems that can handle large numbers of people.