Security News > 2021 > December > Rideshare account hacker faces up to 22 years in prison

A man pleaded guilty to fraudulently opening rideshare and delivery service accounts using stolen identity information sold on dark web marketplaces.

The man is believed to be a leading actor of an 18-member team who stole identities and falsified documents to create false rideshare and delivery service accounts and then sold or rented them to other individuals.

The photographs used for circumventing the facial recognition checks used as protection measures in rideshare and delivery service provider systems were often taken directly by the actors.

"As a result of the scheme, Internal Revenue Service Forms 1099 were generated in victims' names for income that conspirators earned from the rideshare and delivery companies," reads the announcement from the Department of Justice.

Ever since the start of the pandemic and the emergence of a broad gig worker economy, hackers have been trying to get their hands on the accounts of rideshare and delivery workers to steal their hard-earned money.

The internet is full of social engineering examples against rideshare workers who lost their accounts and balances to hackers.

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