A woman scammed ride-hailing apps to earn a staggering $10,000 a month. Explained.
Priscila Barbosa, a Brazilian woman who arrived in the United States in 2018, discovered how scam rideshare apps the most famous for winning up to 10 000 $ per month. We explain this crazy story to you.
Uber and Lyft give hope to this Brazilian woman who arrived in the United States
When she arrived in the United States, she was only 117 $ in pocket. The media Wired has related a large part of his astonishing story, full ofhope and of crime. When she landed at JFK airport, the contact who was supposed to pick her up never came. Left alone with herself, Priscila decided to Take the things over control to start his life on American territory.
She started out working in a pizzeria Brazilian while renting a room for accommodation. In a short time, she discovered the impact of carpooling apps like Lyft and Uber. She realized that these apps were very lucrative, but unfortunately she didn’t have a U.S. license at the time. Someone offered her to rent an identity for $250 a week, and she accepted.
Photo credit: Nucleo Editorial Priscila Barbosa defrauded the company Uber for about two years.
An important moment in its history comes whena customer forgets his wallet in Priscila’s car. The latter gave the wallet back to its owner who didn’t even thank her, but Priscila still took a photo of the driver’s license to start her adventure on Uber. The next day, her account was approved and she was ready to transport people illegally.
A life of luxury thanks to fake carpooling accounts
Soon, she stopped driving herself to save time. She focused on creating new fake accounts for other immigrants. Thanks to the many security failures applications, it has built a very lucrative black market. In just two yearsshe claims to have earned around $1.4 million. She says she could earn up to $10,000 a month. This allowed her to finance voyagescars and also to give a helping hand to his family in Brazil.
Unfortunately for Priscila, the FBI finally came knocking on her door. So those good times came to an end, her illegal business exposed. This story still shows that Priscila Barbosa had the courage to come to the United States to try a new lifeeven if everything did not go as planned, especially at the beginning. She will still have served a sentence of two years in prison before being granted a good behavior release. Today, the applications like Uber are clearly more secure to prevent others from exploiting similar vulnerabilities again.
Source: www.autoplus.fr
