I became aware of an Uber Eats scam via a post on Mastodon. And after doing some investigation, I found it worth my while to publish a story on the scam for two reasons. First, let’s start with the scam which is detailed here by Landon Epps who was a victim of this scam:
As mentioned above, a Washington Post reporter by the name of Chris Dehghanpoor was scammed twice. And he has a detailed summary of this scam here. That brings me to the second reason why I have decided to post this, Uber Eats was of no help in dealing with the scam that this reporter tripped over. In fact, they stopped responding to his DM’s for assistance. That reflects poorly on Uber Eats as you would think that they would want to protect their brand by getting rid of scams like this. But clearly that isn’t the case.
Uber Eats has a serious problem here, but until they choose to address it, I would recommend that you reconsider the use of this food deliver app as it seems like if you get hit by this scam, the company has decided that they not only won’t have your back, but they don’t seem to care that this scam exists.
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An Uber Eats #Scam Is Making The Rounds
I became aware of an Uber Eats scam via a post on Mastodon. And after doing some investigation, I found it worth my while to publish a story on the scam for two reasons. First, let’s start with the scam which is detailed here by Landon Epps who was a victim of this scam:
As mentioned above, a Washington Post reporter by the name of Chris Dehghanpoor was scammed twice. And he has a detailed summary of this scam here. That brings me to the second reason why I have decided to post this, Uber Eats was of no help in dealing with the scam that this reporter tripped over. In fact, they stopped responding to his DM’s for assistance. That reflects poorly on Uber Eats as you would think that they would want to protect their brand by getting rid of scams like this. But clearly that isn’t the case.
Uber Eats has a serious problem here, but until they choose to address it, I would recommend that you reconsider the use of this food deliver app as it seems like if you get hit by this scam, the company has decided that they not only won’t have your back, but they don’t seem to care that this scam exists.
Consider yourself warned.
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This entry was posted on June 14, 2023 at 8:30 am and is filed under Commentary with tags Uber. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.