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It might be a hope that people on vacation have enough velocity to miss the charge as they might be using Uber frequently and not notice until they are back in
by yial 8y ago
It might be a hope that people on vacation have enough velocity to miss the charge as they might be using Uber frequently and not notice until they are back in their home country.
Or that the effort involved is so great that people write off the ~$100 or odd so dollars that the scam cost them.
- itake 8y agoto the driver's perspective, they may of just wasted 4 hours driving around in time, fuel, and wear and tear if its successful, that seems like a big risk.
- yial 8y agoI’m not super familiar with Uber’s signup, but I was once interested in just seeing the details of it as a driver. I ended up with two approved accounts by accident. Albeit one was for Uber eats and the other for Uber driving. But they were not appreciably different. Disclaimer: I never actually performed any rides or deliveries on the platform. At least not at the juncture. I had quite some time previously done it for a few days during concert “surges”.
- Jommi 8y agoSign-up is wildly different in different areas
- snaky 8y agoWouldn't faking the GPS data be enough?
- disiplus 8y agoidk, you can fake the GPS to show you on another location very easily, but to scam a drive, as in following a road at some speed you would need a custom application that can do that.
- snaky 8y agoSure, but considering demand for such an app among the drivers, I would imagine the dozen of apps are competing on Brazil market.
- usrusr 8y agoThose four hours would be spent driving for customers on other networks, or for cash. I can't imagine that Uber did not have a solution for this all these years since we seem to only be seeing reports now. But I could easily imagine stuff like that getting lost over time when there is sufficient turnaround in the department of "moving fast and breaking things". If there even are people who have the explicit responsibility of making sure that the company's basic business formula is kept intact, they will be the ridiculed naysayers in an environment of yes-men.
- ohyes 8y agoYou get a bad rating and get fired as a driver, presumably. My guess is that the pay is now so bad that Uber can’t find enough drivers so bad drivers go unpunished.
- chrisseaton 8y ago> people on vacation have enough velocity to miss the charge What does ‘velocity’ mean in this context?
- walshemj 8y agoLots of spending I think they mean the overcharge gets lost in the noise
- jaclaz 8y agoI may add that the payments (or prices) in local money often confuses foreigners, besides not having enough "reference points" to understand if - all in all - the fare is correct, they may also be confused by the exchange rate, (reserved to non-Brazilians/people not familiar with the country): quick, how many US dollars are R$78.50? and 42.80?
- yial 8y agoThat they’re spending frequently enough and in large enough amounts that they may not notice, nor have the time to question and reconcile.