You’re in need of a ride and rent an uber, thinking that it should only take a few minutes for the Uber driver to get there. You sit there and wait for the driver to get there and continuously check the app, but all of a sudden the driver cancels on you randomly. So then you pick a different driver, only to have them do the same thing. The cycle continues until you finally find an Uber driver that is willing to pick you up but doesn’t want to put you on his meter. Instead, he closes the Uber app and wants you to pay him the money directly so that Uber doesn’t get a share of his profits. These are just a few examples of the many Uber scams that are out there.<\/p>\n
Uber<\/a> is a ride-sharing company that hires people around the globe to drive passengers to and from their destination. Users create an account on the app, then choose the destination they want to go to. The driver then meets them there and picks them up, taking them to their requested location and dropping them off. The user can then choose to tip and rate the driver based on their driving or customer service. Their card is automatically charged once the trip is completed, and the profits are split between the driver and Uber.<\/p>\n However, with this ride-sharing app drivers have found ways to scam their customers and make a quick sneaky buck. Here are some scams that Uber drivers perform on a daily basis to cheat the system and steal your hard-earned money.<\/p>\n The driver turns off their meter and charges customers an under the table price. The driver then offers the customer a better price without Uber knowing, since they don\u2019t have their meter on. That way, the driver gets to keep all the money and Uber doesn\u2019t get its portion of it.<\/span><\/p>\n The driver tells their customers that they are there waiting for the customer when really they are parked quite a ways away from where the customer actually is. When the customer goes to find the Uber driver, the driver cancels the ride and leaves the customer with a $10 cancellation fee. This gives the driver free money and leaves the customer paying when they didn\u2019t even receive a ride.<\/span><\/p>\n The driver notices that their customer has a kid coming with them, and uses that to their advantage to blame the mess in their car on the child. This happens when they drop the customer off, then create a fake mess in their car. The driver then takes a picture of the mess and sends the picture to Uber, where the app approves that the customer can be charged with an 85 dollar cleaning fee. Problem is that the customer and the customer\u2019s kid did not create the mess in the vehicle, so they are paying the driver for nothing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n[aesop_image img=”https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0043.jpg” panorama=”off” imgwidth=”100%” align=”center” lightbox=”off” captionsrc=”custom” captionposition=”left” revealfx=”off” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\n Uber drivers wait for surge rides instead of accepting customers\u2019 normal rate rides. Surge rides are when a driver has to go to heavier traffic areas to pick up their customers, and therefore get more money out of the drive. Since they get more money out of these rides, they ignore the customers in normal ride areas, leaving them to get a bunch of cancel notifications and going through an hour wait just to get an Uber driver to acknowledge them.<\/span><\/p>\n The driver claims that their app isn’t working and crashed on them in the middle of the ride. He then insists that you pay cash for the ride you just received since he can’t charge the customer’s card due to the app glitch. The customer pays the driver, only to find out after the ride that their card had been charged as well.<\/p>\n Once the ride is over, the driver insists that you chose to pay cash versus with your card and demands you pay them with cash. Once you pay them in cash, they drive away and your card gets charged anyways. The rider was fooled since there is no pay by cash option on the app.<\/p>\n[aesop_image img=”https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0045.jpg” panorama=”off” imgwidth=”100%” align=”center” lightbox=”off” captionsrc=”custom” captionposition=”left” revealfx=”off” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\n As you wait for your Uber, people who claim to be from Uber also offer you a ride for a cheaper price. However, they don’t have the Uber sticker on their car or anything else that could prove they are an Uber driver. Turns out, most of the time they don’t work for any ridesharing company and just want to give you a ride to make money. This could be dangerous since there’s no way to track the driver if something were to happen to you.<\/p>\n The driver takes you on a toll road and insists that you have to pay them extra for it. They demand you for more money until you give cash to them. The customer then looks at their Uber bill and sees it go up because of the toll road. What happens is Uber can detect you’re on the toll road and will charge you on your bill for the road. This allows for the driver to make back the money they would’ve spent on the toll road. Because you paid the driver extra, they now get double the money than he should’ve for the road.<\/p>\n If you want to be featured in our future YouTube videos or articles and share your story of being scammed, email us at ShareMyStory@socialcatfish.com<\/a> and we will get back to you.<\/p>\n If you feel like you’ve been scammed by your Uber driver and have been a victim of Uber scams, and want to know their real identity Social Catfish<\/a> is here to help! You can reverse search<\/a> any given information, such as their name, email address, or phone number to make sure that they are who they say they are.<\/p>\nTypes of Uber Scams<\/h2>\n\n[aesop_video src=”youtube” id=”Be48RSAWm4g” width=”100%” align=”center” disable_for_mobile=”off” loop=”off” controls=”on” mute=”off” autoplay=”off” viewstart=”off” viewend=”off” show_subtitles=”off” revealfx=”off” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\n
Turning Off the Meter Uber Scams<\/h3>\n
Far-Away Parking Scam<\/h3>\n
Messy Kid Scam<\/h3>\n
Surge Ride Uber\u00a0Scams<\/h3>\n
App Glitch Scam<\/h3>\n
“You’ve Chosen to Pay Cash” Scam<\/h3>\n
Airport Ride Scam<\/h3>\n
Paying the Toll Scam<\/h3>\n
How to Avoid Uber Scams<\/h2>\n[aesop_image img=”https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0044.jpg” panorama=”off” imgwidth=”100%” align=”center” lightbox=”off” captionsrc=”custom” captionposition=”left” revealfx=”off” overlay_revealfx=”off”]\n
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