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.
[sarcasm] Wow, Whatsapp owned by Facebook (the privacy violators) isn’t secure? Colour me surprised [/sarcasm]
Shame she didn’t get away with it. Another case for abolishing borders and letting people work and stay places if they want/need to. Also for the US to stop having such an effect on other countries, directly or indirectly.
I don’t think there was anything in the article indicating the privacy of WhatsApp was actually breached, they got info by reading WhatsApp messages from other people in the chat who had already been arrested and from Apple.
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.
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Thanks for the paywall OP 🙄
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.wired.com/story/priscila-queen-of-the-rideshare-mafia
Loafs fine without js
Wayback Machine link too: https://web.archive.org/web/20240717171003/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.
Wired is soft paywall too. Clearing cookies works
Is this even a tech journalist who wrote this story? Man, wired has gone down hill.
[sarcasm] Wow, Whatsapp owned by Facebook (the privacy violators) isn’t secure? Colour me surprised [/sarcasm]
Shame she didn’t get away with it. Another case for abolishing borders and letting people work and stay places if they want/need to. Also for the US to stop having such an effect on other countries, directly or indirectly.
I don’t think there was anything in the article indicating the privacy of WhatsApp was actually breached, they got info by reading WhatsApp messages from other people in the chat who had already been arrested and from Apple.
Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining!
Either I missed that or didn’t pick up on it.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Thats like Hollywood-level dumb.