How Two Florida Men Scammed 'Uber Eats' Out of $1 Million – Slashdot

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Wow ! the world just got really bad.
Before that, we used to have a single “Florida Man” doing crazy stuff.
Now they are two,and even worse, they work together.
Humanity is doomed.

Wow ! the world just got really bad.
Before that, we used to have a single “Florida Man” doing crazy stuff.
Now they are two,and even worse, they work together.
Humanity is doomed.
It’s even worse than you think. Entire families [apnews.com] from Florida are involved in doing crazy stuff.
All of the replies about restaurants are off-topic, since this issue is about delivery from a store.
For those orders, the “courier” goes into a store and buys stuff off the shelf. They need to be provided some instrument to purchase things, since only a fool would front their own money to a corporation and bear the risk of cancellation themselves. On the other hand, you have this situation where both the courier’s purchases and the order are made in bad faith. This is why Uber uses instruments with fixed a
That’s only in California, and more specifically San Francisco.
This being Florida, they’re lucky to not get the death penalty.

This being Florida, they’re lucky to not get the death penalty.
Ya, but being in FL is pretty harsh punishment itself. 🙂

I thought in America you could just take stuff if the value was less than $999 without any repercussions. Has this changed?
That is another bit of Fake News from the Fox end of the spectrum:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch… [snopes.com]
https://apnews.com/article/fac… [apnews.com]
The citations the GP used were factual and from credible sources, in support of the GP’s argument.
That’s why the GP couldn’t possibly cite Foxnews as a credible news source.
And your “quick search” of foxnews failed to include the hours of broadcast television Foxnews spews, especially during Foxnews’ prime time of which no news programs or actual news reports are broadcast, only opinion/talk shows which Foxnews legally define themselves as being entertainment that no reasonable viewer would believe [courthousenews.com].
“It’s a
Snope and the Associated Press are hate sites?
In California, it’s not a felony if it’s under $950 the first time you do it, but it’s still a misdemeanor. However, if you steal $700 twice from the same company, then it rises to the felony amount because $1,400 is more than $950.
With that said, this happened in Florida, and I don’t really know the laws in Florida.
$700 per shop is loaded? what does uber think people are buying on grocery to load at least $700 per shop?
They likely assume a courier might be buying for multiple customers on the same trip.
They’ll get diabetes from eating $1 million of restaurant food.
You can buy visa cards as gift cards that work anywhere dipshit
You forgot the — before your signature word
no, no I didn’t
Remember Superman 3? Well, no. Nobody does. Anyway, Richard Pryor is a computer genius who runs a scam where he funnels fractions of a cent remainders off into an account. He eventually gets caught. But this was based on a real world case.
How they could expect to get away with that much is astounding.

How they could expect to get away with that much is astounding.
The fine article makes clear it is about, “Two men from the Fort Lauderdale, Florida area”.

Remember Superman 3? Well, no. Nobody does. Anyway, Richard Pryor is a computer genius who runs a scam where he funnels fractions of a cent remainders off into an account. He eventually gets caught. But this was based on a real world case.
How they could expect to get away with that much is astounding.
Ever see Office Space [wikipedia.org]? (that’s obviously rhetorical) Same plan, and they actually reference Superman 3. Of course they botch the implementation with a decimal place error and the account grows *way* too fast. Of course, your commentary applies to that film too.

Anyway, Richard Pryor is a computer genius who runs a scam where he funnels fractions of a cent remainders off into an account.
Yeah, they did it in Office Space
This worked because Uber Eats provides couriers with prepaid cards they can use to purchase up to $700 to complete customers’ orders.
No: it worked because they could cancel the orders. Chargebacks are the bane of merchants [wikipedia.org] the world over.
You can’t do a charge-back if the authorized card holder made the transaction.
other scams are to just say customer not home (for age check items) or can’t get into building.
for the customer to say it was not dropped off.
use an stolen CC card to get an uber eats gift card and then run up an big order.
From the sound of it they were creating fake Uber profiles. So the real story here is Uber’s identity management sucks.
Whatever claims they make, they clearly have no idea who their drivers actually are. I am not saying the traditional cab/courier companies are doing any better, or anything mind you. Just saying be cautious out there you really don’t know who is coming to your door or who you are getting into a car with. Sure Uber says they don’t have several out standing warrants and a rap-sheet a mile l
There are a few bright lines for the IRS, a couple are providing office space and dictating hours. The company credit card is not on the list.
This doesn’t sound like a “scam.” If Uber Eats is dumb enough to hand out free credit cards to strangers (after all, Uber has fought tooth and nail to claim that their drivers are not “employees”) and then those strangers use the cards to enrich themselves… well, it sounds like Uber eats just learned an important lesson. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office should have laughed at Uber Eats, then told them to fuck off out of the Sheriff’s Office so they could solve some real crimes.
While I do think law enforcement should actually engage in a little victim blaming for the sake of prioritization. Its still illegal conversion and its still a crime. I don’t think they should ‘ignore it’.
If you show up and say “hey someone stole my gift cards, by the way my business model is contracting individuals I know only thru a self completed web form to handle large sums of negotiable assets”
I mean yes that should maybe be net with an eyeroll and “well I guess we will make sure all the deputies kno
“If Uber Eats is dumb enough to hand out free credit cards to strangers”
If the “independent contractor” has to bear the risk of order cancellation happening after purchasing the items out of pocket no one will take those orders.

If the “independent contractor” has to bear the risk of order cancellation happening after purchasing the items out of pocket no one will take those orders.
And that’s OK. Maybe it wasn’t ever a great business model.There’s nothing in the constitution that says dumb business ideas are required to be profitable, or that society should pick up their cost.
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