The Uber scammers who take users for a (very expensive) ride

A year on from reporting accounts being hacked, Londoners receive shock bills for 'phantom rides' in Mexico and New York

Earlier this month Angie Bird woke up at her home in London to discover she had been billed for a series of minicab journeys she had allegedly made the previous evening " in the Mexican cities of Guadalajara and Aguascalientes, more than 5,500 miles away.

While she was having dinner with friends, someone - or more than one person - in Mexico had apparently hacked into her Uber account and "went a bit crazy" ordering cabs at her expense. They made five journeys that were all charged to Bird's credit card, and ordered a further 11 cabs that evening which, for whatever reason, they didn't take.

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