Priscila Barbosa came to the US with a dream of making it. Using gig-economy platforms she built a business empire up from nothing. There was just one huge problem.
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.
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.
20k for 791k, about a 2.5% fee
Probably have to forfeit the money on top of the fine.
According to the article they did seize whatever they could.
Also, the 20k is her fine, they gained the 790k between 20 people.
Don’t know how they distributed it, but 790k for 20 people isn’t a lot of money.
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.
Why do you need special qualifications to work for Door Dash lol
Usually, they fail the background check, don’t have a license, their car doesn’t meet requirements. Etc
Also people without a work permit.