In the interest of helping someone avoid this, I'm going to post a familiar story that happened to me yesterday.

Needed a few more rides to make my quest so I took a $3.50 McDonalds order Sunday afternoon going just a few blocks. I pick up the order from McDonalds and it weighs nothing. I look on the app and it's a single dipping sauce. I'm curious but at the end of the day I don't really care so off I go to deliver. I get there in 3 minutes and it's a meet at the door. Just as I pull up, the phone rings. It's the Uber number and I'm curious so I answer it. Some clown introduces himself as Uber support and gives the familiar "you are on a delivery for xxx, I need you to pull over and cancel the order, they paid with a stolen credit card". So I say sure and go ahead and mark the order delivered. The guy pretty quickly says no, you were supposed to cancel. I start apologizing profusely and ask if I'm going to get into trouble. He says , we need to fix this. In order to do so I need to verify your account. At this point I was laughing so I told him it would be more fun to verify who his real father was and the call quickly ended.

Point is, if you are new here, DON'T EVER GIVE OUT ANY INFO IF "THEY" CALL YOU. It seems like this scam is on the upswing, I've gotten at least 3 calls while on pickups, I'm guessing some of those were scammers.

I experienced something very similar just yesterday. I rarely do Eats, but I needed 3 trips for weekend Quest, due to a sat night barfer.

What was to be my 3rd delivery was a single iced tea from a sit-down restaurant. Got two calls on the way to pick-up, which I ignored, thinking it was the previous drop-off complaining about their food, and a 3rd call right as I was pulling up to the drop-off, which I answered.

They had set a PIN-required drop-off, which is why I answered the call, thinking, of it was the current customer, I'd have to get the PIN, anyway.

The caller claimed to be from Uber and that "the customer had an emergency and is no longer at the address, so I needed to cancel the order", but that they wanted to pay me a promotion and needed me to verify my hours worked, trip total, wallet balance, and bank used for direct deposit 😆

When I said I wouldn't, the caller said "well, then we can't give you the promotion" and hung up.

 

The moral of both stories is. . .don't do quests.

 

The $200 I got for quest money says otherwise. I had to do 6 crappy rides/deliveries in 90 minutes to get myself over the top. Grossed right about $40 an hour for the weekend, how did you do?

But did the scammer tip?

Actually, they tip baited.

Man, how you can walk up to dirtbag "homes" and hand them food is beyond me. And all for $3? AND, that's after you've parked your vehicle and walked into some roach infested dump of a restaurant. Yeah, yeah, I know some of you have made "bank". So do a lot of people who pick through garbage dumps and find a Picasso.

First off, you are in a delivery thread. So why are you bothering to hate on delivery, enthralled with the sound of your fingers hitting the keyboard?
Second, only did the $3.50 because I wanted to make my quest and go home.
Third, this is about dollars. What is this "dirtbag home" snobbery? You are too good to do the work, lucky you. I did fine this weekend, see above. How did your proud self do?

 

I've gotten this scam before on a ride... they asked me to cancel while I was driving to the pick up location. I said sure in 7 minutes when I can collect my cancellation fee and hung up on them

 

But did the scammer tip?

 

I would have the scammer “call my real phone phone number and talk on a more secure line” and give scammers this number (202) 324-3000.

 

Why would Uber ask you to cancel when all they have to do is clear the order from your app?

Uber giveth, Uber taketh away.

 

It's not unusual for support reps to ask me to cancel orders when restaurants are closed or another driver picked up the order. I always refuse and I tell THEM to do the cancelling.

 

That delivery required a PIN. What did you end up doing? Cancelled for no show and then what?

 

I cancelled it and still got the $9 and the Quest.

I'd expect them to adjust for that $9 within a few weeks.

 

Man, how you can walk up to dirtbag "homes" and hand them food is beyond me. And all for $3? AND, that's after you've parked your vehicle and walked into some roach infested dump of a restaurant. Yeah, yeah, I know some of you have made "bank". So do a lot of people who pick through garbage dumps and find a Picasso.

 

Man, how you can walk up to dirtbag "homes" and hand them food is beyond me.

Well, I just leave it at the doorstep and send a text or a pic.

 

In the interest of helping someone avoid this, I'm going to post a familiar story that happened to me yesterday.

Needed a few more rides to make my quest so I took a $3.50 McDonalds order Sunday afternoon going just a few blocks. I pick up the order from McDonalds and it weighs nothing. I look on the app and it's a single dipping sauce. I'm curious but at the end of the day I don't really care so off I go to deliver. I get there in 3 minutes and it's a meet at the door. Just as I pull up, the phone rings. It's the Uber number and I'm curious so I answer it. Some clown introduces himself as Uber support and gives the familiar "you are on a delivery for xxx, I need you to pull over and cancel the order, they paid with a stolen credit card". So I say sure and go ahead and mark the order delivered. The guy pretty quickly says no, you were supposed to cancel. I start apologizing profusely and ask if I'm going to get into trouble. He says , we need to fix this. In order to do so I need to verify your account. At this point I was laughing so I told him it would be more fun to verify who his real father was and the call quickly ended.

Point is, if you are new here, DON'T EVER GIVE OUT ANY INFO IF "THEY" CALL YOU. It seems like this scam is on the upswing, I've gotten at least 3 calls while on pickups, I'm guessing some of those were scammers.

That happened to me 2 months ago. It was a 13 package delivery from Walmart. My brother gave me the fake Uber number just to block it. So I got no phone call, just 7 of my orders disappeared off My phone.
Make it short, Uber didn't remove the addresses, I had to make the trip and do 7 cancelations, which didn't go good on my record and I am still suffering even though I was told "no punishment."

 

#1 rule is, never pick up the phone while on delivery, it only gives you extra headache...

 

In the interest of helping someone avoid this, I'm going to post a familiar story that happened to me yesterday.

Needed a few more rides to make my quest so I took a $3.50 McDonalds order Sunday afternoon going just a few blocks. I pick up the order from McDonalds and it weighs nothing. I look on the app and it's a single dipping sauce. I'm curious but at the end of the day I don't really care so off I go to deliver. I get there in 3 minutes and it's a meet at the door. Just as I pull up, the phone rings. It's the Uber number and I'm curious so I answer it. Some clown introduces himself as Uber support and gives the familiar "you are on a delivery for xxx, I need you to pull over and cancel the order, they paid with a stolen credit card". So I say sure and go ahead and mark the order delivered. The guy pretty quickly says no, you were supposed to cancel. I start apologizing profusely and ask if I'm going to get into trouble. He says , we need to fix this. In order to do so I need to verify your account. At this point I was laughing so I told him it would be more fun to verify who his real father was and the call quickly ended.

Point is, if you are new here, DON'T EVER GIVE OUT ANY INFO IF "THEY" CALL YOU. It seems like this scam is on the upswing, I've gotten at least 3 calls while on pickups, I'm guessing some of those were scammers.

Sauce is free. More likely a pie. I think that’s the cheapest McD item these days. I thought this was important information to put out there.

Hmmm. Come to think of it, how come you don’t remember exactly what it was??? Did you not partake?!?!? 😂