Customer Charged Rs 4.6 Lakh By Uber For Rides Not Even Availed; New Scam In Town?

New Delhi: There is a brand new rip-off on the town which is duplicating your quantity after which the usage of you to e book rides on UBER and charging exorbitant quantity for a journey that can have lasted precisely 2 mins. In a fast moving digitized society that we’re all residing in, not anything appears to be personal anymore together with your own cell quantity and the whole thing may also be duplicated at no matter time to siphon off your hard earned cash. 

This weekend grew to become harrowing for an Uber person. On Saturday at 4:30 am IST she were given an alert on her cell declaring that her travel have been verified and a pin has been generated. She used to be asleep and the alert message used to be learn with sleepy eyes.

Confused at seeing the message, the person tapped at the ‘pin’ considering if she had a booked a journey on UBER by way of mistake or in sleep. The message redirected her to UBER login web page and requested her to login together with her telephone quantity. Half asleep she fed within the quantity and grew to become off the telephone and were given again to sleep.

Hours later, she were given a choice from a UBER driving force declaring that her Intercity journey for Punjab have been booked and he used to be ready on the pick-up location. Again, at a loss for words by way of the decision, she went on her UBER app to test if she had booked any journey or if there used to be a scheduled travel booked thru her ID. She discovered none. 

Since that decision on Saturday morning, she gained a minimum of 40 calls during the weekend. Some calls got here at 1:30 or 2:30 am at evening, some at 5 am within the morning.

The person even Uninstalled her UBER app, however to no respite. Throughout the weekend, the person persevered to get Uber intercity journey requests.

The maximum harrowing section used to be no longer but over. Uber charged Rs 4.6 lakh on her company on UBER account, billing it to the group she labored in. Trips had been booked and charged for a hefty Rs. 4,000 to 8,000 for a distance of 2 km or much less.

The Uber person says that no one reached out from UBER whilst the messages on her X DM saved declaring ‘we are looking into the matter’. 

(The Uber person within the tale is a senior journalist at Wion, a part of the Zee Media community of channels. Story without delay originated in Wion)