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Today after i tried to login to uber eats and was logged out. When i tried to login with my pohone number, it failed with error "this mobile number is not recognised by uber."!!!
When i tried my uber ride account, the same happened and i am blocked from logging into my uber account.
I raised a complaint from uber support page as in i am not able to login to my uber account. This was all around 12 noon on 14th april 2019 (Today).
At around 7:21 pm ist i received a transaction confirmation message from my debit card. The message goes like this
"alert: you've spent rs. 3508.79 via debit card xx4233 at uber trip vgxft help. Uber on[protected]:19:21:06"
I contacted by bank and blocked my debit card permanently, went to the nearest police station and registered a fir. Filled the cdf form and filled it and will be sending it to the bank.
A while later, a upi authorisation request came on my phonepe account, which i could luckily decline the upi is safer. Needless to say, this was also from uber at[protected]:21:41:00 and the message goes like this
"uber india systems pvt ltd has requested you on phonepe. Rs.2547.5 will be debited from your account on approving the request"
Just after 5 minutes of the above transaction, i received another transaction confirmation alert from my bank, this time is was on a linked credit card to the uber account. I immediately called the bank to permanently block this card and took down the complaint number. Will be filling up the cdf form and sent email. The message goes like this;
"alert: you've spent rs. 2563.33 on credit card xx7193 at uber trip xgyzk help. Uber on[protected]:21:48:15"
While i was writing this complaint, another upi transaction request came on g-pay which i can't cancel but ignore. The fraudster is desperate to try all the payment methods i have linked to my account.
All of this could happen due to the lack of security being provided by uber as the associated phone number and email address was modified without intimation. The fraudster used the linked payment methods to make unauthorised purchases/payments.
Since there is no uber helpline or hotline, the fraudster was able to continue to make unauthorised transactions even after blocking a card. If this is not me alone then the magnitude of the fraud will be huge in the coming days. Uber need to come up with the details of how was this allowed and what are the measure they are planning to take to avoid this as well as many other challenges.
Uber India customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.
Apr 29, 2019
Updated by manish8p It has been 2 week and there isn't a single response from Uber support.
How pathetic can the customer service can go down to.
- Manish
Some times due to the fault of driver my trips were cancelled, but cancellation amount had been added in my Next trips.This cancellation amount by default to be paid compulsorily by our Side.Kindly rectify the issue in the System.