Description

I'm an Uber Eats driver. I got a call from someone claiming to be with Uber trying to resolve a claim against me for the week prior for missing items from a delivery. Since the claim existed I didn't think anything was wrong. I am assuming the scammer is the one that made the claim in the first place since they had knowledge about it. They had me cancel the order I was on, which they knew what it was so I am assuming that it was also an order they placed. At this point they switched phones or something and called me on a different number (1 (415) 463-7199). They told me that they were going to pay me for the missed time I was going to have with them of about half an hour. They then asked me to verify it was me by telling them the amount of trips I did the last two weeks, what my points earned were, and the amounts I made over the last two weeks. Then they went in to how to get paid for the time it was going to take by adding a debit card to my account, explaining that it was going to replace my current card so they could add the payment they were going to give me back into my account. Then to verify it was me that was working I would have to send the amount of money i had made over the last two weeks to the card then they would add the payment back to it and I would get the new card in the mail. I got a little suspicious at this point and sent my earnings to another account I use to pay bills, so they didn't get everything. When I explained I had already sent my earnings elsewhere they had me use the $150.00 back up balance that is an Uber program which is basically like a small loan you pay back right away, then send that to them. I still wasn't sure at this point but didn't want to lose my ability to drive for Uber so went along and sent the $150.00. They said they would call me back the next day after I made more money to be able to send the amounts to prove it was me driving and then hung up. The I did what I should have done from the beginning and asked Uber's help line if this was a legitimate call from them and that's when they told me it was probably a phishing scam.