Uber eats

timtim2016

Just a quick post to warn people that Uber eats has <SNIP> both myself and partner over the last few days. Starts out strange when signing up, where the verification code arrives through a saved contact on your phone e.g your mam,dad, sister, brother etc . Takes out the money within a few minutes

Atlantic Dawn

How does the code arrive? Text, email?

JohnC.

Sounds like a scam using Uber's name rather than Uber scamming you. Unless you're in Belfast, I don't think Uber Eats even operate here.

RossieMan

Yea sounds like you've signed up through the wrong website or something. That doesn't make any sense that it's come from another contact.

timtim2016

Downloaded the app off the Google play store, signed up to it like normal, they send you out a verification code but it comes through as if one of your contacts has text you

OldMrBrennan83

JohnC. wrote: »

Sounds like a scam using Uber's name rather than Uber scamming you. Unless you're in Belfast, I don't think Uber Eats even operate here.

Are they not the ones running the new McDonalds delivery service here?

RossieMan

timtim2016 wrote: »

Downloaded the app off the Google play store, signed up to it like normal, they send you out a verification code but it comes through as if one of your contacts has text you

something wrong with your phone or internet. Have tried it on a couple of devices just to check and it works fine.

Pelvis

Op, what does uber achieve by scamming you?

OldMrBrennan83

Pelvis wrote: »

Op, what does uber achieve by scamming you?

The OP already mentioned them taking money. I'd say that's reason enough.

L1011

I would be fairly certain that you have a phone with a virus and the "play store" is not actually the play store.

newirishman

How do they take money out? Did you provide card details in that app?

Kenny Logins

L1011 wrote: »

I would be fairly certain that you have a phone with a virus and the "play store" is not actually the play store.

If this even was a thing you'd still have to allow unknown sources.

perfectisthe

I installed and used uber eats with no issues on friday. Confirmation no was not from a previously stored number. Got a tenner off the first order too.

RossieMan

Kenny Logins wrote: »

If this even was a thing you'd still have to allow unknown sources.

I think anything might be possible here, apart from the fact that its actually Uber eats. The OP has a virus or has lost there way somewhere.

Pelvis

Patww79 wrote: »

The OP already mentioned them taking money. I'd say that's reason enough.

You do know Uber is worth billions?

timtim2016

I just threw up people to warn, no second agenda and i don't work for rivals, just my own and my partner's experience. We both downloaded the app from the play store, filled n the details, few hours later permanent tsb contacted about strange transactions, I checked my online banking and Uber eats BV Amsterdam had taken 3 transactions totalling about 50 euro

listermint

This is not possible.

You've done something wrong. As in fkd up the setup.

L1011

Kenny Logins wrote: »

If this even was a thing you'd still have to allow unknown sources.

It absolutely is a thing, and once you've enabled unknown sources - which hundreds of thousands of people did to install Fortnite for instance - you don't need to do it again.

timtim2016

listermint wrote: »

This is not possible.

You've done something wrong. As in fkd up the setup.

Everything was normal, the same way you fill in any other forms online

OldMrBrennan83

L1011 wrote: »

It absolutely is a thing, and once you've enabled unknown sources - which hundreds of thousands of people did to install Fortnite for instance - you don't need to do it again.

It's slightly different in Android 9 (app by app basis) but yeah, if you turn it on you need to turn it back off.

PopTarts

Works fine for me and no issue with the service.

I’d contact them about it - somewwhere along the process it looks like you were scammed but I’d be doubtful it was through Uber.

Will the banks reverse the transactions?

timtim2016

PopTarts wrote: »

Works fine for me and no issue with the service.

I’d contact them about it - somewwhere along the process it looks like you were scammed but I’d be doubtful it was through Uber.

Will the banks reverse the transactions?

Hopefully they will, I'm certain it wasn't Uber aswell, it was just a strange scam wherever they caught me because I put in no bank details

timtim2016

timtim2016 wrote: »

Just a quick post to warn people that Uber eats has <SNIp> both myself and partner over the last few days. Starts out strange when signing up, where the verification code arrives through a saved contact on your phone e.g your mam,dad, sister, brother etc . Takes out the money within a few minutes

Verification code arriving through a saved contact should have been warning enough. Uber didn’t scam you. Scammers did.

timtim2016

Deleted User wrote: »

timtim2016 wrote: »

Just a quick post to warn people that Uber eats has <SNIP> both myself and partner over the last few days. Starts out strange when signing up, where the verification code arrives through a saved contact on your phone e.g your mam,dad, sister, brother etc . Takes out the money within a few minutes

Verification code arriving through a saved contact should have been warning enough. Uber didn’t scam you. Scammers did.

I know Uber didn't

Pelvis

timtim2016 wrote: »

I know Uber didn't

Well that's not what you said in your OP.

G_R

timtim2016 wrote: »

I know Uber didn't

That's not what you said in your OP

timtim2016 wrote: »

Just a quick post to warn people that Uber eats has <SNIP> both myself and partner over the last few days. Starts out strange when signing up, where the verification code arrives through a saved contact on your phone e.g your mam,dad, sister, brother etc . Takes out the money within a few minutes

timtim2016

Pelvis wrote: »

timtim2016 wrote: »

I know Uber didn't

Well that's not what you said in your OP.

It's Uber eats, I know it's connected to Uber, but it was Uber eats app that I got <SNIP> with, that's who took the money, Uber eats BV Amsterdam

RossieMan

Look, you haven't a clue what you're talking about.

You didn't give them any bank details, did they guess your bank details?

Please, get off the internet. It's not safe for you here.

dudara

timtim2016 wrote: »

I just threw up people to warn, no second agenda and i don't work for rivals, just my own and my partner's experience. We both downloaded the app from the play store, filled n the details, few hours later permanent tsb contacted about strange transactions, I checked my online banking and Uber eats BV Amsterdam had taken 3 transactions totalling about 50 euro

OP- please stop saying scammed. Uber is a large company and it’s highly unlikely they have done anything illegal here.

dudara

I downloaded Uber Eats at the weekend on my iPhone. I don’t recall having to enter my credit card details at any point. The fact that you did is making me very suspicious.

oleras

To setup an account with Uber eats, you need to scan in a debit/credit card.

Thats as far as i got, i didnt actually enter any details.

OldMrBrennan83

That's the way it comes up for me. Maybe the mobile is randomly generated and it happened to match one in your contacts? Still doesn't explain the money going though.

HeidiHeidi

OmegaGene wrote: »

I suspect you have been duped by a phishing scam and have signed up to something else and they have taken your info and money

I think this is most likely the case.


This morning I woke up to two pending transactions from UberBV Amsterdam, but I have never engaged with Uber in any shape or form anywhere, app/website/phone.


The transactions have been reveresed, and the card has been cancelled and I'll be a week waiting on a new one. :mad:


And there seems to be no means of identifying what transaction was compromised, which seems crazy - so I have no idea if his can/will happen again with the new card.

TCP/IP

It's not a reason not to use Uber Eats its just another reason not to use an Andriod phone.
Security is and always will be an issue with Andriod.

HeidiHeidi

TCP/IP wrote: »

It's not a reason not to use Uber Eats its just another reason not to use an Andriod phone.
Security is and always will be an issue with Andriod.

How do you (or I, for that matter) know it was an Android problem, when I don't even know what transaction was compromised?

RossieMan

He doesn't know it was Android.

Could be an email scam, a bank machine cloned, a dodgy shop attendant etc.

Without looking at your transaction list, it's impossible to tell. It could be from a couple of days ago, or months.

HeidiHeidi

RossieMan wrote: »

He doesn't know it was Android.

Could be an email scam, a bank machine cloned, a dodgy shop attendant etc.

Without looking at your transaction list, it's impossible to tell. It could be from a couple of days ago, or months.

Even looking at the transaction it seems to be impossible to tell. Or so the bank tells me.

RossieMan

HeidiHeidi wrote:

Even looking at the transaction it seems to be impossible to tell. Or so the bank tells me.

The problem is the sheer amount of transactions means it might take them a while to trawl through it, which most people might not bother checking out.

Having done this before, it's possible, but might not be worth the time invested from the banks point of view. It depends how long ago it was.

HeidiHeidi

RossieMan wrote: »

The problem is the sheer amount of transactions means it might take them a while to trawl through it, which most people might not bother checking out.

Having done this before, it's possible, but might not be worth the time invested from the banks point of view. It depends how long ago it was.

Yeah I get that. But it's frustrating not to know what I did, so that I can avoid doing it again!

RossieMan

Have you purchased anything online recently from a new/different site?

Have you been offered a refund on anything lately via email?

Have you signed up for any new service?

Possible your laptop/computer may have a virus. Run a scan.

So many variables.

TheChizler

Could even be a random card number generator, and using Uber (or commonly Netflix) to test the card to see if it's valid.