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She Made $10,000 a Month Defrauding Apps like Uber and Instacart. Meet the Queen of the Rideshare Mafia (www.wired.com)
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[-] ynazuma@lemmy.world 54 points 4 months ago

Failry old news. The Wired article is long and offers nothing but verbiose language and opinion.

The Skinny:

Barbossa is a Brazilian immigrant who along with another Brazilian and a group of 17 other people, used stolen identity data to create fake Uber and Door Dash driver accounts to defraud these companies. They would sell or rent these accounts to unqualified drivers. The scheme netted them about 791,000USD. Barbossa got 3 years in prison, three years probation, and a 20,000 dollar fine.

[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 21 points 4 months ago

20k for 791k, about a 2.5% fee

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago

Probably have to forfeit the money on top of the fine.

[-] explore_broaden@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

According to the article they did seize whatever they could.

[-] menemen@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Also, the 20k is her fine, they gained the 790k between 20 people.

Don't know how they distributed it, but 790k for 20 people isn't a lot of money.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Is it really fraud to take money back from a fraudster?

[-] smackjack@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I wonder if she's the reason why I received a 1099 tax form from Uber earlier this year, even though I've never driven for them.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago

Why do you need special qualifications to work for Door Dash lol

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Usually, they fail the background check, don't have a license, their car doesn't meet requirements. Etc

[-] menemen@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Also people without a work permit.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As a teen, she kitted out her home PC with a terabyte of memory...so she could play Counter-Strike

Is this even a tech journalist who wrote this story? Man, wired has gone down hill.

[-] asap@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the paywall OP 🙄

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.wired.com/story/priscila-queen-of-the-rideshare-mafia

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

while you're doing God's work, to also remind people that the "bypass paywall clean" browser extension exists, and works on a lot of websites.

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Wired is soft paywall too. Clearing cookies works

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 4 months ago

Loafs fine without js

[-] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

[sarcasm] Wow, Whatsapp owned by Facebook (the privacy violators) isn't secure? Colour me surprised [/sarcasm]

Shame she didn't get away with it. Another case for abolishing borders and letting people work and stay places if they want/need to. Also for the US to stop having such an effect on other countries, directly or indirectly.

[-] explore_broaden@midwest.social 8 points 4 months ago

I don’t think there was anything in the article indicating the privacy of WhatsApp was actually breached, they got info by reading WhatsApp messages from other people in the chat who had already been arrested and from Apple.

[-] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 5 points 4 months ago

Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining!

Either I missed that or didn't pick up on it.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 4 points 4 months ago

Outside, she placed several phones under her Porsche’s wheels and drove over them.

Thats like Hollywood-level dumb.

this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2024
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