"Vomit Fraud" Is Running Amock With Uber

NY Post - Uber’s permanent damage control team, fresh off dealing with some industrial espionage, lawsuits, and a fatal self-driving car, have a fun new challenge: Vomit fraud.

According to a delightful story from the Miami Herald, passengers in Miami are getting hit with cleaning fees for vomit they didn’t produce. The cleaning fees largely go into the pocket of drivers as payback for having to clean puke out of their cars, so it’s easy to see how this scam works.

Passengers are informed hours or days after their ride that an “adjustment” has been made to their ride pricing, normally either $80 or $150, according to the Herald. Photos of the issue, which are originally provided by the driver to Uber, are provided, which typically show vomit in the Uber driver’s car.

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I’m so fucking woke on Uber and all their scams and schemes and frauds. The one that keeps happening to me is I request an Uber, a driver agrees, and then sits there, not moving. You call them to ask what’s up and they don’t pick up the phone. So then you’re stuck deciding if you want to cancel it and pay the $5 fee (which goes to them), or wait them out. Apparently, and this is alleged, Uber drivers are making a pretty penny pulling this scheme, because they know nobody is going to report them, and if they are reported, they can just claim they were getting gas or something. It’s bullshit.

Also, it’s nonsense that an Uber driver can agree to pick you up, make you wait for 5-10 minutes for them, and then just cancel on your ass and make you re-request a car. We have places to go! The fact they can cancel all willy nilly and leave you out in the cold is bullshit. Give me a $5 credit every time they do that.

And now we have to worry about vomit fraud? Figure it out, Uber. You nickel and dime us enough as it is, make us put up with drivers who want to have a conversation with us, asking about our day and where we’re from and other pleasantries we have no time for, and now we need to be concerned about a $150 charge for made up puke? Woof. And the worst thing about having to worry about fraud Uber charges is most people take Ubers on weekends. Which means you’d have to then…*shudders*…open your bank account after a weekend and check on the charges. Which means you’ll see just how much you spent at the bar, and stare at your checking account for hours on end, wondering where all your money went.

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Thanks, Uber.

But I’m still not taking the Subway.