Posing as Uber Support, Scammers Continue to Dupe Drivers Out of Their Earnings With Fake 'Bonus

Gizmodo -------- Ride-sharing services have been implicated in all sorts of fraudulent schemes from clean-up fees for fake vomit and credit card theft to elaborate foreign dark money networks. But one of the oldest and hardest-to-kill scams hurting drivers uses little more than old fashioned social engineering to steal their earnings. Uber requires its drivers to input login credentials, and automatically requires two-factor authentication on an unfamiliar device—such as a phone belonging to a fraud ring. Phone numbers are also anonymized, routed through Uber’s system so that neither driver nor passenger know the actual number of the person they’re being connected to. Scammers need all of this is information to hijack drivers’ funds. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article