🚨PSA: Uber Eats Scam🚨

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

* Brand new bicycle delivery ā€œdriverā€ 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

šŸš€ 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

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@landonepps The answers you got from Uber in chat are so robotic and annoying 😳 and pretty crazy they were just like ā€œok we’re done here byeā€ it looks like you were talking to ChatGPT trained to answer any message with some variation of ā€œwe are sorry, we are not helpingā€ā€¦

@aviel @landonepps I suspect every one of these replies is AI. It should have escalated to a human at two different points here and didn't.

I saw a story from WaPo recently that Uber Eats takes the smallest cut of all the delivery services, so maybe this is why.