Be careful drivers, there's a new Uber scam, don't fall for it!

Simple rule: if someone contacts you out of the blue, whether through a phone call or email or txt message, don't give them any sensitive information or take any action with regard to your account with them. Doesn't matter if they say they are Uber, or the cops, or the IRS, or that you're being sued for a billion dollars. It's probably a scam. If you are unsure, ask for a name and a call back number. Then you can hang up and take your time to think about it before doing something rash.

They will try to scare you. Don't buy it.

It is important to think about this before it happens. Anyone can be fooled under the right circumstances. When you get a phone call like this at a vulnerable time it can be tempting to just go along with it. After all you have a million other things to worry about. Don't.

I think most Uber drivers would be smart enough to avoid this. Usually these types of scams try to prey on the people like the elderly who are not hip to the ways of the 21st century.

I have heard of this type of scam before where someone calls you pretending to be Uber. Uber would never do that so don't ever give out your credentials!!

At least this man didnt fall for it. So many others would. Like Uber would do anything nice for you. Thst would've been my first clue. Unfortunately there will be people who fall for it. I had 2 separate callers at different times call me saying they were from Uber. They one cslled me 7X in a 15 min period with rider in car. Rider asked if I needed to answer as it seemed important. I ignored the calls. After dropping off rider I had 4 voicemails from the caller claiming to be from Uber to address an issue. Said he would follow up with email. No email and no number to call him back. Uber claims no one called me. Of course they didnt seem to care. Would make a note on my account. The other one same thing only he called once. They are getting our info from somewhere. Didnt Uber have a data breach a few years back? Maybe our info was sold who knows. 

Ok anyone who falls for this deserves it. Seriously you have to be pretty stupid to change where your checks go to some random person who calls you.

He says before he could reach the rider, he got a call from what he thought was Uber customer support.

"It sounded like a call center," said Benjamin.

The caller on the phone told him the rider he was about to pick up needed to cancel their ride, but couldn't do it themselves. So, the caller said Benjamin needed to do it for them. They then told him that he was going to get a week of free gas for the troubles.

In order to get the free gas, Beckham was told he needed to replace his bank account information with the one they were providing him with.

"As soon as he told me to replace my payment information, I was like wait this is how I get paid," said Beckham.