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Re:I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb by mullingitover on Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:17PM (#21413786)
A person close to me had a driver fail to end the ride, and drove around several miles racking up charges. When she noticed this and complained to Uber, they rejected her claim. When she disputed Uber's fraudulent charge on her credit card, they blacklisted her account.
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Re:I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb by DenisM on Thursday October 31, 2019 @08:20PM (#21415156)
Did she just create a new account?
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Re:I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb by reustle on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:36PM (#21416084)
It's tied to your phone number and they don't support virtual numbers
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Re:I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb by hassancf on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @12:07PM (#21454294)
Actually they do. I currently use a number that was transferred to Fongo 3 years ago and have not had any issue with UBER since then.
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Re:I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb by reustle on Friday November 08, 2019 @01:44AM (#21480402)
I've never gotten uber or uber eats to successfully validate through my google voice number. Support chalks it up to being a virtual number.
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Re:I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb by mullingitover on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:34PM (#21421533)
Nope, she just doesn't use Uber anymore.
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