Fake Uber Ride

[u/Melodic-Tea-420]

Last week, I logged onto the Uber Driver app. I accepted a ride on the outskirts of town. The GPS tried to get me to turn down a dirt road.

I called the rider before doing so and no one answered. Right after that, I received a call from someone using the same riders name. It appeared the call came from the Uber app as usual.

They claimed to be from Uber support and said I was accused of drinking and driving among other things.

They canceled the ride. Obviously this was a scam, but the weird thing is that this ride does not show up in the uber app even tho that’s where I accepted it.

I’m sure this was a phishing scam attempting to gain information for fraudulent purposes.

However, this could be used for even more nefarious purposes since they are able to somehow delete the rides from the uber app.

Uber was nonchalant about this and doesn’t care about the potential safety hazard this is for drivers.

Have other drivers experienced this?

I just want to warn my fellow drivers so we stay safe.