Uber Eats scammed by two twenty-somethings. Exploiting a flaw in the security system, two men are suspected of having taken more than two million euros from the meal delivery giant between January 2022 and June 2024, we have learned the Parisian. The two suspects are accused of having hacked the delivery platform via encrypted messaging Telegram, by offering to order dishes at half price. The defendants then recovered 50% of the real value of the order, as well as the full reimbursement requested from the company Uber Eats, the prosecution said.
A tirelessly repeated maneuver using new customer accounts, with the help of a bot, a fraudulent program which allowed them to create 137,000 accounts and automate the protocol. The delivery company, whose turnover amounted to one billion euros in 2021, estimated the damage at 2.4 million euros. Uber Eats decided to file a complaint when it noted numerous undue reimbursements in April 2024.
In addition to ordering meals, the investigation established that the Telegram channel in question, named “Fast Eats”, offered the sale of “tech”, training billed at 300 to 500 euros intended to guide a novice step by step in order to allow him to carry out scams himself.
According to another source close to the case, the young man arrested in Nanterre, born in 1996, without a criminal record and without a profession, is suspected of being the owner of the Telegram channel, of having received money and of having approximately 200,000 euros of cryptocurrencies disappear. “He disputes the facts with which he is accused,” his lawyer, Me Ian Knafou, told AFP. With his accomplice, arrested in Saint-Nazaire, they were indicted on Thursday and placed under judicial supervision. A judicial investigation had been opened for organized gang fraud to the detriment of the American online platform to allow an illicit transaction by an organized gang, reported the prosecution.
Source: www.liberation.fr
