Failry old news. The Wired article is long and offers nothing but verbiose language and opinion.
The Skinny:
Barbossa is a Brazilian immigrant who along with another Brazilian and a group of 17 other people, used stolen identity data to create fake Uber and Door Dash driver accounts to defraud these companies. They would sell or rent these accounts to unqualified drivers. The scheme netted them about 791,000USD. Barbossa got 3 years in prison, three years probation, and a 20,000 dollar fine.
Is it really fraud to take money back from a fraudster?
I wonder if she’s the reason why I received a 1099 tax form from Uber earlier this year, even though I’ve never driven for them.
Thanks for the paywall OP 🙄
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.wired.com/story/priscila-queen-of-the-rideshare-mafia
while you’re doing God’s work, to also remind people that the “bypass paywall clean” browser extension exists, and works on a lot of websites.
Loafs fine without js
As a teen, she kitted out her home PC with a terabyte of memory…so she could play Counter-Strike
Is this even a tech journalist who wrote this story? Man, wired has gone down hill.
Outside, she placed several phones under her Porsche’s wheels and drove over them.
Thats like Hollywood-level dumb.
