Terrible shame that you’re mysteriously only carrying a credit card and no other form of payment then, isn’t it?

:)

they used to pull this a lot - if they try it now call them out. They aren't allowed to operate with a broken card machine

> if they try it now call them out

This is a fun way to make tourists feel insecure.

Call them out, where you wait on a foreign police, prove your identity, file a report -- in a non native accent / language -- in the best case...

or in the worst case, where they'll take you where you don't want to go (or other cabs to pickup), potentially drive off in a dangerous way as you forcibly exit the vehicle, and blacklist you from other cars

-- all while you're hoping to make it to a hotel, airport, tour safely and on time.

Yep.

Most people forget that. Tourist places are a literal gold mine for fraudsters and other kinds of bad people.

Indeed and I don't know if it's just me but I genuinely feel like London has gotten a lot worse for fraudsters in recent years...

Cooonsiderably.

I don’t want to call them out. I want to never have to call them out. With Uber I don’t have to so I’ll take that.