it really is best to just call your local taxi company and schedule a pickup.

uber/lyft is great in a pinch, but you cant expect there to be no risk. its literally an unsolicited stranger giving you a hitchhike.

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Not sure if it was fraud or someone else in the car, but this absolutely happened to me. The email "process" is a fucking joke with Uber.

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I was gonna say....I thought this sounded familiar

I always tipped Uber drivers $5 and i'd always get a 4.5+ star driver scooping me up in like 2-3 minutes. I eventually found out they have a profile/rating for riders too. Even tho it might seem antithetical to spend $5 extra when you took Uber to save $5-15 on a cab when you're going from city >> suburbs and cabbies give you some bullshit excuse to cover their deadheading costs it tends to balance out.

That said, even tho this kind of shit happens I still think drivers are taking the bigger risk by inviting the general public into their back seat. I think you've gotta have some kind of a chauffeur license to legally Uber/lyft someone in the city whereas any schmuck with a debit card can get a ride.

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Doubtful I actually will but reading this stuff makes me wonder if I should make it a practice of taking a picture or two of the car interior and driver upon exiting the vehicle.

Although we were in Miami in January and took MANY Ubers and Lyfts and never had a problem. But we do always tip (fairly generously) and give 5-star ratings to all but the most terrible drivers so I wonder if there is some correlation?

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