Landon EppsJun 14, 2023

🚨PSA: Uber Eats Scam🚨

There’s a scam being run on Uber Eats and I got hit.

* Brand new bicycle delivery “driver” acct
* They use GPS spoofing to fake being at the dropoff
* They message you once, then ignore you for 30 minutes
* Can’t call, their phone number is fake
* They mark your order delivered
* Uber support instantly dismisses it
* Can’t call Uber, no phone #

This WaPo reporter was scammed twice and wrote a summary:
https://nitter.net/chrisd9r/status/1666900028848308224

🚀 and/or tell ppl to stop using Uber Eats

Chris Dehghanpoor • chrisd9r.bsky.social (@chrisd9r)

Anatomy of an @UberEats scam: Bike courier "picks up" order. They idle @ pick up spot after picking up. 10-25 min later, GPS suddenly shows they're @ delivery location. Order's "delivered" - but nowhere to be found. Here's how it works & why it's bad for drivers & customers

Nitter
Show threadKevin HayesJun 14, 2023
@landonepps @leigh Note in situations like this, you can call your credit card company and ask for a chargeback.
Show threadLandon Epps

@kevinbhayes @leigh I’ve gotten burned pretty badly by doing a chargeback before, so I’m a bit hesitant to.

I had purchased some software but never received the license key or any response after trying to contact the dev for multiple months so I requested a refund on PayPal.

fastspring.com, the e-commerce platform, shadowbanned my account and the error message they gave me was about my payment method being invalid. I was confused because nothing I tried worked.

Jun 14, 2023 at 1:49pmWeb
Show threadLandon EppsJun 14, 2023

@kevinbhayes @leigh FastSpring also seemingly blocked me from getting support, because they wouldn’t respond to any of my emails.

It wasn’t until I reached out to the dev for LaunchControl 2 (great Mac app, btw), who reached out to FastSpring on my behalf, that I found out my email had been blocked because of the chargeback.

> “As far as we can see this customer has issued a Chargeback with a different seller before. That is the reason we do not accept payments from him.”

Show threadLandon EppsJun 14, 2023
@kevinbhayes @leigh Robby, the LaunchControl dev, fought for me and finally got them to remove the block, but this took up so much of my time that it really wasn’t worth the $30 or whatever I got back from PayPal.
Show threadLeigh HoneywellJun 14, 2023
@landonepps @kevinbhayes yeah, chargebacks against platforms like Uber, Amazon, etc are only worth it if you’re ok never using the platform again - they will ban your account. Pretty common misunderstanding of the process, I’ve seen
Show threadKrupoJun 18, 2023

@landonepps @kevinbhayes @leigh the secret is to rely on chargebacks from your credit card company rather than PayPal

I had the Italian train company literally shrug at me when they double charged me for a ticket and I tried to fix it on the spot while on vacation.

Submitted the evidence to my credit card company. Charges reversed.

Show threadKevin HayesJun 15, 2023
@landonepps @leigh yikes, I’m sorry to hear that.