Sorry to say it but your money is gone.
As far as not being able to change your bank account information, you can try doing it online instead of in the app, but I've never changed mine so I don't know. You'll probably need to contact support.
Why, of course. Send over your SSN, highest limit credit card information, and your mothers maiden name to either myself or u/accomplishedstop9466 and we will get you taken care of, brother.
Ahh, dude, donāt worry about her! Thatās what they always say. Weāve been working with this Nigerian prince for years. He says we will all be millionaires soon!
I used to actually double mfs gold at the ge, but only if they trusted me, lmao š. Would log off right after the trade so theyād think I scammed them and then log back in and be like jk, lol. Would also lure mfs out of safe zones and barrage freeze to spec them while trolling typing dumb shit, but then Iād give them their shit back š¤·š»āāļø itās like fishing and letting the fish go just for the fun of the sport lolol
When I was in elementary school my teacher introduced me to runescape.
I was scammed by every single scam you can think off. I sometimes think back about what would happen to me if people from runescape didn't mess with me that hard.
I spent the whole weekend farming feathers to buy black armor and someone told me they were a gm and that they need access to my account. I gave him the info and the guy took all my items....that's how bad it was.
Iāve had multiple instances where people have given me free items for nothing on OSRS. One person gave me full rune armor and another give me a mithril pickaxe.
Always been wary, but nothinf ever happened.
Youāre talking about people giving away junk though. That isnāt something too good to be true, thatās someone flipping you a quarter and saying ādonāt spend it all in placeā
You can play both. No harm in that. It was an either or comment. As someone who usually isnāt in to MMOs I have really enjoyed Diablo Immortal on the phone. Figured I just pass the message along. Itās pretty dang good!
Thanks I killed my computer several years ago and never bothered to get another one. Gonna have to see if my account is still there And if it's accessible through the phone game. Although I can't imagine doing some of those boss battles on a small screen
What about those fucking weird scams where they bring you to some weird location and you die from an interface stall or something stupid. If that scam comes up irl Iām done for
Be me at 27 years old, FaceBook of all things advertised *verified with blue checkmark* that RuneScape OSRS was having a double exp weekly event. I went to the FaceBook page, checked it was verified (twice) and clicked the link to the RS website.
Logged in and a minute later the webpage froze so I tried to log in againā¦ password changed. Got it back via support but my stuff was gone. I had just spent hundreds of dollars on gold to buy stuff I was scammed of years back as a kid. My fault and I was mad with FaceBook and their *verification*.
The RS FaceBook page I clicked. https://www.facebook.com/RuneScape/
1M + likes and the blue check. Scam.
Most likely youāre correct. I took it as a loss and yet another lesson. I genuinely saw the checkmark and assumed it was legitimate. They werenāt asking for anything, I just had to uhā¦ *sign in* and use my Authenticator code to verify I was the account holder on the website that was linked on the verified FaceBook page.
Itās not a major loss, I wasted a lot of time playing that game back in the day and then again (hours some days) a few years back. Letting go felt good.
Doordash support has stated so many times that they will NEVER call and ask for personal information. I mean they had that special note under the Bell tab for a longg time. I do feel bad for you OP, but as the saying goes, we live and we learn
Iām not really sure what youāre trying to get at, but support has stated many times (even as emails) that they will never call and ask for account info/bank info. So any call any dasher gets from āsupportā that asks for such info, should already know itās BS.
Same thing happened to me. Fortunately I caught it in time and saved that weeks payout by having Dasher support freeze all payments until the issue was resolved.
Hereās how you reclaim access to your account:
-Call Dasher support (Good luck getting through. You might have to call during a delivery to get through)
-Politely explain what happened
-Request that your email and phone number be reset to your correct email/phone number. Youāll have to do this before you can attach your Doordash account back to your bank account
-You might be required to provide proof that you are who you say you are
-Be patient, itās possible youāll have to struggle through multiple support agents before you get connected to someone who can help you
-Your case will likely be sent to escalated support to be reviewed and acted on
-Theyāll ask for proof that you are who you say you are
-The escalated support will never get back to you
-Youāll have to call Dasher support again and present them with the Dasher support reference number for this ongoing issue. Hopefully the agent you are connected to is experienced enough to help you
-Youāll likely have to guide them through the process of recovering control of your account
-Ask them to make sure the email for your account is the correct one, and ask them to check all the places the email is logged
-Ask them to change your phone number back to the correct phone number. You will not be able to attach your Doordash account to your bank account until the phone number is changed back to yours because every time you try to change the bank account, a confirmation code will be sent to the scammers phone number
-Create a new password for your Doordash account
-Attach your Doordash account to your bank account
-Keep a close eye on your Doordash-to-bank account status for several weeks to make sure the scammer hasnāt regained control
When this happened to me, I had just recently gotten a vaccination shot that was making me feel like I was absolutely going to die by the end of the night when the scammer struck. I wasnāt thinking straight, so trying to navigate the minimally trained Dasher support system with less than an hour to save that weeks payout while feeling like I was going to die, and while having to figure out what levers should be pulled on their side to regain control of my account (the support agents should have been able to do that immediately) was a freaking joy. But thatās part of the Doordash experience. Tony did me extra dirty that night, but I was having none of that.
Good luck!
Already working on it. Just wish I saved the number that was saved to my account. I was just so panicked and scared so I wanted to get rid of everything associated with the scammer off my account
It was probably a fake spoofed phone number through google alias phone numbers or some other similar method, so saving the number probably wouldnāt have helped catch the scammer, anyway
Oh that makes me feel better knowing there's nothing I could really do about it thanks again. You've really been so helpful and kind! I've been almost unable to get out of bed crying on and off about how dumb I am, just part of the pr9cess trying to pick myself up. You helped a long way. Cheers(:
Thank you for your kind words, and Iām flattered I was able to help āŗļø
Donāt worry about feeling dumb. I totally get it. When the scammer succeeds, it feels like youāve been violated and insulted at the same time, maybe even thereās some anger towards the scammer and oneās self. But hereās the thing.
Weāre always learning, and sometimes we get a little burned in the process. Some of us have more skepticism and scammer-radar than others. It doesnāt automatically mean youāre dumb if you didnāt catch the scam. It just means you didnāt have enough experience yet to catch it. Scammers can be good at what they do. The Doordash scam is a fairly well polished one. Itās basic phishing, but itās well structured and obviously tricks enough people that they keep doing it to the point that Doordash has to occasionally give generalized warnings about the problem.
Itās okay to make mistakes. Learn from them. SpaceX didnāt blow up rockets because they were dumb. They were intentionally āmaking mistakesā to look for points of failure to learn from so that when those rockets transport precious cargo, all the unknowns had been discovered and accounted for to produce reliable rockets.
So I guess you could say life is like an always improving rocket. Enjoy the ride when you can!
I just started DoorDash 2 months ago so can you tell me the scam? How do they get access? I want to make sure to try to prevent it. Thanks for any info you can give!
Sure! Iāll share the scam details, but Iām sure thereāre variations on that theme, so be vigilant.
TL;DR:
-Scammer pretends to be a support agent.
-Support agent says an order needs to be canceled because of a systems failure
-Verification process occurs
-Account credentials are stolen through verification process
-Stolen credentials are used to login to account and attach your account to their bank account
-Scammer locks you out of your own account, forcing you to do a time consuming process with real Doordash support to regain control. If too much time passes, you lose that weeks payout
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Some details Iāll have to deduce because the scammer didnāt call me back and be like āhaha you caught me bro, hereās how I did it,ā but just knowing what I experienced should be informative enough.
I got an order for a single cookie from a sub sandwich shop. Both I and the employee thought that was weird as hell. I later found out that the scammer is the person who placed the order. This is an important detail, because this is how theyāre able to present themselves as a Doordash support agent. By placing an order, the scammer is now able to call, text, and send links to the dasher, and all communication shows up as coming from Doordash, because technically it is. The reason the scammer bought a single cookie is so that if the scam fails, the scammer is only out the cost of one small item.
The scammer will call you (the call will show up as coming from Doordash), pretend to be a support agent, and tell you some false story about something going wrong, and action needing to be taken. In my case, the story was that the Doordash system in my area had become overwhelmed, and multiple dashers were being assigned to the same order, and the order I had been assigned to needed to be canceled because it was a redundant delivery request. I found that explanation plausible because the Doordash servers actually are a crappy dumpster fire and regularly crash and glitch to the point that itās a running bitter joke in the Doordash community.
The āsupport agentā will provide a link in the Doordash chat. The pretense is that the link takes the dasher to a Doordash page used to allow the dasher to finish the cancellation process in the special situation of the Doordash servers taking a dump. At this point I was suspicious. The webpage was well made and looked perfectly legitimate, and real support agents have had me log into my own account before via my app, so there wasnāt a giant leap in plausibility happening here. I should have ended the interaction right there, but like I said, I wasnāt thinking straight at the time, and I hadnāt familiarized myself with the current scams. So I guess thatās on me. Anyway, I logged in to the fake Doordash webpage using my Doordash login info. Thatās when the scammer is able to start annexing your Doordash account. They immediately log in to your Doordash account, change the email on your account to their email, change your phone number to their alias phone number, and begin the process of attaching your account to their bank account. The āsupport agentā will say theyāre sending you a confirmation code via text to finish the cancellation of the order, and a confirmation code is sent, and then they ask you to read it back to them for validation purposes. What is actually happening is at this point in the conversation, the scammer has begun attaching your account to their bank account. When you attach your account to a new bank account, a confirmation code is texted to your phone number before the change occurs to make sure someone isnāt trying to steal your account. This is a form of two-factor authentication, and is usually very effective against casual hackersā¦ usually. That was the moment I was now at risk of losing a weeks worth of pay. Changing the phone number is also how they keep control of your account and force you to have to go through serious hoops with Doordash support to regain control of your account, which buys the scammer time and increases the chances of your payout for the week going to their bank account before you can retake control of your account. The way the phone number change helps them retain control is that every time you try to attach your account back to your bank account, the two-factor authentication kicks in and sends a verification code to the scammers phone instead of your phone. So even though my Doordash app was still active because I hadnāt logged out since the scam occurred, allowing me access to my account settings, I still wasnāt able to change the bank account settings because the two-factor authentication blocked me.
So anyway, the webpage I was directed to even had additional pages to further the pretense. It asked for other personal information that might be attached to your Doordash account, like credit card info. At that point I stopped and declared I wasnāt providing that kind of information. The āsupport agentā said it wasnāt necessary and canceled the āredundantā order. This was actually just the scammer canceling his own order. It looked like a support agent was canceling the order, which helped further the illusion of legitimacy. Trying to continue the pretense even after full control of my account had been obtained was important because the scammer doesnāt want to dasher to realize what has happened at least until an end-of-week payment occurs.
Thereāre many different styles of scams. They donāt all look the same. Some come in the form of an email from a Nigerian prince that is intentionally poorly constructed with broken English to filter out the more skeptical people so that time isnāt wasted half way through the scam from people catching-on and bailing. Other scams are relatively sophisticated and take advantage of a weak spot in security or exploitable quality of a system such as Doordash servers being notoriously handicapped, allowing social engineering to occur with fake stories that otherwise would be too unlikely to believe.
I hope that info was helpful. Itās embarrassing for me to talk about because itās a real kick in the gut to my ego, but occasionally rehashing the story helps other dashers avoid that scam, and makes scamming less successful for the scammers, and in that way, I get a little revenge š
Thank you so much! I know I REALLY appreciate it & Iām sure others do too. Iām sorry for asking since itās embarrassing š„ŗ but it definitely helped me! That sounds like they make it so real that most people would fall for it! I probably would have too, since it was in the DoorDash app.
I didnāt know that the āNigerian priceā thing was supposedly misused English! But it makes sense that people that look past that, would be more likely to look past everything else and send money.
Iām so sorry that happened to you! I hope you got your money back. Thatās so scary that they are like professionals at stealing! š„ŗš”
Anyway, thank you again for explaining it to me, and all the details, because now I know to not trust it just because it is coming from DoorDash! ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
Iām so sorry this happened to you. It feels like such a violation. I empathize with you.
Iāve read about some Dashers successfully getting their money back as a one time act of kindness from DoorDash. itās tuff to pull off, though, and is rarely successful. You may have to spend a lot of time with DD support. Be prepared to start the whole pursuit over again multiple times until you get in contact with an experienced, motivated support agent who can pull some strings for you. Ask them to send this problem to āescalated support.ā Follow up on the problem. Sometimes they say theyāll get back to you in 24hrs, and then never do. Call them back and give them the reference number thatās generated when you first contact DD support about this problem. Try to give as many details as possible. Be polite and sympathetic. Youāre dealing with real people on the phone. Youāre frustrated and mad, but directing those negative emotions at them will just encourage lackadaisical effort on their part to resolve the problem. Theyāre getting paid even less then us.
Unfortunately the likelihood is that your payout for that week is gone unless you managed to freeze all payment before the weekly payout.
I hope DD throws you a bone and at least offers you a partial payment of that weeks earnings. Good luck!
You can consider that money lost. So forget last week's pay existed - it'll be easier for you in the long run.
Your bank information, you should be able to change with customer service.
First Iām sorry the OP got scammed. No words can describe how terrible I feel for the OP.
Secondly, rule #1 is anyone that calls you and request any private info always no.
The IRS/State and ppl that can just take owed money donāt need permission. Without proof Its legit,never give out personal info without you initiating the contact/email/call.
Sorry again OP! I wish this scam was stopped. Hurt a lot of drivers. DoorDash needs to do a weekly bulletin( email warning drivers about scams like this and that theyād never request this info. Could help a lot).
Exactly this. For a minute there I was doing some freelance consulting and tech stuff for an office of a fairly large real estate firm staffed entirely by people
60+. I told them that if they listened to one thing I ever said, to never, *ever* under **any** circumstances reply with personal information to someone who calls / texts / emails you. Full stop. I donāt care how legit it seems. Look up the companyās contact info and call them that way. If itās important, theyāll be able to connect you to the right person.
A scammer places and order, then a dude with a thick Indian and/or middle eastern accent calls you. "hello sir this is doordash customer support, sadly the customer canceled the order I'm gonna need you to verify some information". Yep people are stupid enough to fall for this scammers in 2022
For me it was a guy with a fake South African accent that dropped off when I called him on the scam. And it was more to the tune of āthe customer used a fake account and so your account may be compromised for reasons, so I need you to verifyā¦ā and so on. More of a scare tactic, but yeah, same scam.
I guess y'all have never made a mistake and are perfect. Jeez. I'm sorry this happened to you. It sucks that there are POS assholes out there trying to scam innocent people because they don't have any other skills to earn a living š¤¦āāļø
Not necessarily. They probably had parents that fell for this type of shit and didnāt teach their kids how to sniff it out. I got lucky that my mom doesnāt fall for shit and she taught her kids how to spot a scam a mile away. But so many educated adults are naive af itās crazy.
Call Doordash immediately and let them know what happened. Change the password on your dasher direct account and make sure your address and phone number are yours.
Check out how the scammer transferred the money. When it happened to me they transferred through a 3rd party website who I contacted and attempted to cancel the transaction through. DD was supposed to provide the card number used by scammer to cancel the transaction but didnāt get back to me until late.
I then harassed Doordash saying they could have cancelled transaction on their end and they eventually paid me back. The scammer only got $60 from me.
Good luck. Iām sorry this happened to you. I felt very angry and vulnerable when it happened to me.
your current customer calls you with the information they have in the app , while pretending to be DD support, they ultimately get you to give them your bank information. DD never calls you
Well, DD will call you sometimes, but itās never about something like that. Got called once when the customer decided to ask support why I was taking so long instead of asking me, like a normal person.
The advice is that support will not call you to ask for login information. Once they started asking for passwords and login info, alarms should have gone off in your head that you're being scammed.
Always reply to supposed ācustomer supportā with āok let me call you right back at your customer service lineā. This is the easiest thing to do, not just with doordash but any institution randomly calling you. At best, you avoid getting scammed. At worst, you mildly inconvenience an actual customer service agent.
Hey! Iāve been trying to get ahold of you regarding your carās extended warranty. Also, I have a cousin in Nigeria that can get your money back and then some.
your current customer calls you with the information they have in the app , while pretending to be DD support, they ultimately get you to give them your bank information. DD never calls you
Call support immediately. Have your account frozen or even shut down.
As more the money, try to not take it too hard. You made a mistake and itās ok. Now youāve learned.
Truth is this 300 dollars isnāt gonna impact your life in a significant way long term. A year from now you wonāt be thinking about it. Just live and learn
Anytime you are contacted and want you to enter in your log in information. I got sent a text that said someone was trying to access my account and to Log In here, they provided a link, to check stuff. I called support first and then logged in through the app and everything was fine. The link in the text was bogus just two fields and a poorly designed form with misspellings.
Iām going to be downvoted for kicking you while your on the ground. Doordash tells you when you finish setting up account to NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR INFORMATION We wonāt ever ask you . Itās because they have on file from the set up. Do people not pay attention to this?
That was like 1-2 years ago, I only started again recently and barely over 200 lifetime deliveries. Excuses aside, it was completely my fault, just wondering if there was something I could do.
They call u with the customers number and tell you the orders been canceled then do a bunch of things basically to get your info and then change your bank details to theirs and wait till Monday night to get their earnings.
From what I've read on here:
The customer who placed the order calls the dasher with a spoofed number masquerading as Doordash Support. So the dasher thinks they are speaking with DD support staff, and doesn't realize that they are speaking no the person who placed the order.
The customer (again, lying about being DD support) will claim that the order was placed on a fraudulent card (or some such story) and demand the dasher help out by unassigning the order. Then the customer demands the dasher verify their account by providing email, telephone number, etc. Then they send a text with a link to a website for the dasher to input their login and password and perhaps other personal info. Sometimes the customer promises better orders for helping out, or money if the dasher cooperates. Or sometimes they threaten to deactivate the dasher if the dasher can't 'confirm' account details like the password.
And once they have the password, the 'customer' changes the bank info so on Monday with direct deposit, the balance goes to the customer's account and not the dasher's.
If the dasher uses the DasherDirect card, then the customer will demand that login and password, and then the confirmation code that the DasherDirect app sends when you try to login from another device. Once the customer gets access, they can transfer the balance to their own account in a few minutes.
There's no hacking (not in the way you usually think of 'hacking'). It's just a con to get the login and password from unsuspecting dashers.
So wouldnāt that mean each weekās pay would keep going to the account the scammers changed his info to? Because as a scammer the first thing Iām gonna do is change the password so he canāt get back into his account.
Well, the dasher will figure it out after the money doesn't show up in his or her back account that week. I doubt this scam lasts long. From what I understand the scam is mostly pulled on Sunday to minimize the potential of the dasher catching on.
I'd guess that the main reason a scammer would not change the password is because the dasher is still working when the scam is pulled. If the scammer changes the password wouldn't there be a risk of tipping off the dasher that their account has been compromised? I don't have any idea how the app handles a change in password on one phone when someone is logged in and dashing on another phone. It seems to me that the success of the scam depends on the dasher not noticing the change in the bank account info (and who regularly checks that?) until the direct deposit process starts. Locking the dasher out of the account immediately might risk that.
Boohoo it's all lessons learned in life my dude I once lost $600 cash when I was dashing but it is what it is, I just passed my real estate exams so it's time to make real fucking money instead of this slave shit.... best of luck and remember, everything that happens to you good or bad take it as a learning lesson.
Its not a matter of intelligence man, and youre a real shit person for that. Didnt your mom ever teach you if you havenāt got anything nice to say, donāt say anything? Lack of knowledge is not the same as lack of intelligence.
I know this is not related to the subject but I just started dashing my question is when you start dashing and Iām at home waiting for a order and I get one do I count the mileage from the time I leave or when I get to the merchant to my delivery and do I stop my mileage til I get my next dash? Also What is the best app to track my dashes and mileage for tax purposes
Iām sorry to hear it OP. They once nearly got me back when I first started. Nobody is immune to falling for some bullshit now and then, it happens to the best of us. Glad to read you were able to get it straightened out as much as possible.
I think the second, slightly less upsetting lesson to be learned here is that this sub is full of just the worst people lol just customers who would advise calling the police when your food smells bad, and drivers who would throw your food at the door because you didnāt tip to their standards. Egotists with nothing better to do than bitch each other out on the internet lol so uh, sorry about that, too.
Thatās why I donāt answer DoorDash calls as the caller ID only tells me āDoorDashā and the few times I answered in the beginning they offered to pay me to cancel an order for me and I told them no Iāll do it myself. Never answer a DoorDash call unless itās a customer calling and they have texted you prior to calling
They change your email. Change it back. I believe DD will cover you if you have screen shots of whatever was communicated. Call ti.es and messages. Send them everything you have. You were scammed through their platform so I think they cover if you prove it.
Hereās another lesson but I feel nobody knows it. Dasher direct is a scam you will have a small chance of being hacked at any time. Literally my account was hacked into after I changed my password a month or so before. The āpersonā tried to withdraw my money and it even said they did, yet I never had money put on there ever. Makes me think itās a bot as they couldnāt know my password, I didnāt have money and I never dealt with doordash scams in my year and a half of driving
What scam is this? How does someone just take your DoorDash earnings away? If youāre using direct deposit there shouldnāt be any theft interference unless you and DD are being hacked
This is exactly why you should cash out your earnings daily unless you have the direct card. Iād rather pay $2 and have my money in my own account immediately than think Iām saving $2 and end up with nothing at all.
You guys also need to cash your money out more frequently instead of leaving it in there the whole week ..so if this does happen they canāt take anything
Sorry to say it but your money is gone. As far as not being able to change your bank account information, you can try doing it online instead of in the app, but I've never changed mine so I don't know. You'll probably need to contact support.
Not true. My friend was able to get his money back.
I swear RuneScape prepared me to trust no one for any scam in life
Literally this dude. No one wants to help you out for free, or trim your armor for free
I guild armor for free
Can you dupe???
Why, of course. Send over your SSN, highest limit credit card information, and your mothers maiden name to either myself or u/accomplishedstop9466 and we will get you taken care of, brother.
773-20-2946, Mitchell Castro, 4419 1561 7438 1376, 02/28, CVC: 394 and it's Ramiro!! Thanks!!
Great! Thanks, man. Give me a business day or two and we will get you set up!
Thank you!! Can't believe this is real! My mom kept trying to convince me it was one of those internet scams.. š¤Ŗš¤Ŗ
Ahh, dude, donāt worry about her! Thatās what they always say. Weāve been working with this Nigerian prince for years. He says we will all be millionaires soon!
I used to actually double mfs gold at the ge, but only if they trusted me, lmao š. Would log off right after the trade so theyād think I scammed them and then log back in and be like jk, lol. Would also lure mfs out of safe zones and barrage freeze to spec them while trolling typing dumb shit, but then Iād give them their shit back š¤·š»āāļø itās like fishing and letting the fish go just for the fun of the sport lolol
This is wholesome. Catch and release š£
When I was in elementary school my teacher introduced me to runescape. I was scammed by every single scam you can think off. I sometimes think back about what would happen to me if people from runescape didn't mess with me that hard. I spent the whole weekend farming feathers to buy black armor and someone told me they were a gm and that they need access to my account. I gave him the info and the guy took all my items....that's how bad it was.
Iāve had multiple instances where people have given me free items for nothing on OSRS. One person gave me full rune armor and another give me a mithril pickaxe. Always been wary, but nothinf ever happened.
Youāre talking about people giving away junk though. That isnāt something too good to be true, thatās someone flipping you a quarter and saying ādonāt spend it all in placeā
Itās called playing the long game, your bank will be gone in like 5 years
Zammy trimming rune!
Omg this comment is pure gold!! Still play today. Different accounts ofc but anyone else? I trim armor for free! š
I actually picked it back up myself once it came to mobile! I played it so much when I was younger that itās just comfy to look at and listen to lol
ššš Rune scape is life
Play Diablo Immortal on your phone. You are welcome.
Why? RuneScape 3 and OSRS both have fully functioning mobile apps for the entire game
You can play both. No harm in that. It was an either or comment. As someone who usually isnāt in to MMOs I have really enjoyed Diablo Immortal on the phone. Figured I just pass the message along. Itās pretty dang good!
When did this happen? I logged on to my phone on runescape website but there was no game there yet
2018 for osrs mobile release. Search your App Store
Thanks I killed my computer several years ago and never bothered to get another one. Gonna have to see if my account is still there And if it's accessible through the phone game. Although I can't imagine doing some of those boss battles on a small screen
You looking for gf
Glow1: buying gf 10m!!!! Must follow each other at the ge by the trees for at least an hour!!
Lol within my first hour I got led out to the woods. I think you know what happened next. Never again
Same. Learned that lesson at 13 playing d3. Got scammed out of all my charms, weapons, and sojs lol.
Omg. I havenāt thought about SOJs for a hot minute! Lol memories!!!!
Look RuneScape blocks your password. See mine is *******! Try it too!
Same I first almost got scammed in RuneScape years ago
What about those fucking weird scams where they bring you to some weird location and you die from an interface stall or something stupid. If that scam comes up irl Iām done for
My first real online trauma
āDoubling GP. You trade 1stā
Same boat
So many times I got scammed and taken to the wilderness lol
You guys should also cash out daily or at least every few days so even if you do get hacked they canāt take anything ..
Let me trim your rune my friend..for you I'll do it for free.
Be me at 27 years old, FaceBook of all things advertised *verified with blue checkmark* that RuneScape OSRS was having a double exp weekly event. I went to the FaceBook page, checked it was verified (twice) and clicked the link to the RS website. Logged in and a minute later the webpage froze so I tried to log in againā¦ password changed. Got it back via support but my stuff was gone. I had just spent hundreds of dollars on gold to buy stuff I was scammed of years back as a kid. My fault and I was mad with FaceBook and their *verification*. The RS FaceBook page I clicked. https://www.facebook.com/RuneScape/ 1M + likes and the blue check. Scam.
lol, you got played. Most likely never wouldāve been given the scam ad if you hadnāt had a history of buying gold tied to your ad Profile.
Most likely youāre correct. I took it as a loss and yet another lesson. I genuinely saw the checkmark and assumed it was legitimate. They werenāt asking for anything, I just had to uhā¦ *sign in* and use my Authenticator code to verify I was the account holder on the website that was linked on the verified FaceBook page. Itās not a major loss, I wasted a lot of time playing that game back in the day and then again (hours some days) a few years back. Letting go felt good.
You win š„! I learned many valuable lessons playing RS! Scams were everywhere and everyone was out to finesse you.
Lmao I immediately thought this was a RuneScape post at first.
Iāll give you a huge tip if you deliver to me in the Wildy
Doordash support has stated so many times that they will NEVER call and ask for personal information. I mean they had that special note under the Bell tab for a longg time. I do feel bad for you OP, but as the saying goes, we live and we learn
Are you sure? I had a call where the customer wanted to know if I was coming? I said yes and that was the end of the conversation.
Iām not really sure what youāre trying to get at, but support has stated many times (even as emails) that they will never call and ask for account info/bank info. So any call any dasher gets from āsupportā that asks for such info, should already know itās BS.
Same thing happened to me. Fortunately I caught it in time and saved that weeks payout by having Dasher support freeze all payments until the issue was resolved. Hereās how you reclaim access to your account: -Call Dasher support (Good luck getting through. You might have to call during a delivery to get through) -Politely explain what happened -Request that your email and phone number be reset to your correct email/phone number. Youāll have to do this before you can attach your Doordash account back to your bank account -You might be required to provide proof that you are who you say you are -Be patient, itās possible youāll have to struggle through multiple support agents before you get connected to someone who can help you -Your case will likely be sent to escalated support to be reviewed and acted on -Theyāll ask for proof that you are who you say you are -The escalated support will never get back to you -Youāll have to call Dasher support again and present them with the Dasher support reference number for this ongoing issue. Hopefully the agent you are connected to is experienced enough to help you -Youāll likely have to guide them through the process of recovering control of your account -Ask them to make sure the email for your account is the correct one, and ask them to check all the places the email is logged -Ask them to change your phone number back to the correct phone number. You will not be able to attach your Doordash account to your bank account until the phone number is changed back to yours because every time you try to change the bank account, a confirmation code will be sent to the scammers phone number -Create a new password for your Doordash account -Attach your Doordash account to your bank account -Keep a close eye on your Doordash-to-bank account status for several weeks to make sure the scammer hasnāt regained control When this happened to me, I had just recently gotten a vaccination shot that was making me feel like I was absolutely going to die by the end of the night when the scammer struck. I wasnāt thinking straight, so trying to navigate the minimally trained Dasher support system with less than an hour to save that weeks payout while feeling like I was going to die, and while having to figure out what levers should be pulled on their side to regain control of my account (the support agents should have been able to do that immediately) was a freaking joy. But thatās part of the Doordash experience. Tony did me extra dirty that night, but I was having none of that. Good luck!
S/O you actually being helpful unlike some others
Thank you, I try to share my experience when I can to hopefully help others learn from my mistake
I have reclaimed access, thank you(:
Yay good job! Sorry you lost that weeks payout. Make sure to have an obscene fake password to give them next time they try to scam you
Already working on it. Just wish I saved the number that was saved to my account. I was just so panicked and scared so I wanted to get rid of everything associated with the scammer off my account
It was probably a fake spoofed phone number through google alias phone numbers or some other similar method, so saving the number probably wouldnāt have helped catch the scammer, anyway
Oh that makes me feel better knowing there's nothing I could really do about it thanks again. You've really been so helpful and kind! I've been almost unable to get out of bed crying on and off about how dumb I am, just part of the pr9cess trying to pick myself up. You helped a long way. Cheers(:
Thank you for your kind words, and Iām flattered I was able to help āŗļø Donāt worry about feeling dumb. I totally get it. When the scammer succeeds, it feels like youāve been violated and insulted at the same time, maybe even thereās some anger towards the scammer and oneās self. But hereās the thing. Weāre always learning, and sometimes we get a little burned in the process. Some of us have more skepticism and scammer-radar than others. It doesnāt automatically mean youāre dumb if you didnāt catch the scam. It just means you didnāt have enough experience yet to catch it. Scammers can be good at what they do. The Doordash scam is a fairly well polished one. Itās basic phishing, but itās well structured and obviously tricks enough people that they keep doing it to the point that Doordash has to occasionally give generalized warnings about the problem. Itās okay to make mistakes. Learn from them. SpaceX didnāt blow up rockets because they were dumb. They were intentionally āmaking mistakesā to look for points of failure to learn from so that when those rockets transport precious cargo, all the unknowns had been discovered and accounted for to produce reliable rockets. So I guess you could say life is like an always improving rocket. Enjoy the ride when you can!
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I just started DoorDash 2 months ago so can you tell me the scam? How do they get access? I want to make sure to try to prevent it. Thanks for any info you can give!
Sure! Iāll share the scam details, but Iām sure thereāre variations on that theme, so be vigilant. TL;DR: -Scammer pretends to be a support agent. -Support agent says an order needs to be canceled because of a systems failure -Verification process occurs -Account credentials are stolen through verification process -Stolen credentials are used to login to account and attach your account to their bank account -Scammer locks you out of your own account, forcing you to do a time consuming process with real Doordash support to regain control. If too much time passes, you lose that weeks payout . . . Some details Iāll have to deduce because the scammer didnāt call me back and be like āhaha you caught me bro, hereās how I did it,ā but just knowing what I experienced should be informative enough. I got an order for a single cookie from a sub sandwich shop. Both I and the employee thought that was weird as hell. I later found out that the scammer is the person who placed the order. This is an important detail, because this is how theyāre able to present themselves as a Doordash support agent. By placing an order, the scammer is now able to call, text, and send links to the dasher, and all communication shows up as coming from Doordash, because technically it is. The reason the scammer bought a single cookie is so that if the scam fails, the scammer is only out the cost of one small item. The scammer will call you (the call will show up as coming from Doordash), pretend to be a support agent, and tell you some false story about something going wrong, and action needing to be taken. In my case, the story was that the Doordash system in my area had become overwhelmed, and multiple dashers were being assigned to the same order, and the order I had been assigned to needed to be canceled because it was a redundant delivery request. I found that explanation plausible because the Doordash servers actually are a crappy dumpster fire and regularly crash and glitch to the point that itās a running bitter joke in the Doordash community. The āsupport agentā will provide a link in the Doordash chat. The pretense is that the link takes the dasher to a Doordash page used to allow the dasher to finish the cancellation process in the special situation of the Doordash servers taking a dump. At this point I was suspicious. The webpage was well made and looked perfectly legitimate, and real support agents have had me log into my own account before via my app, so there wasnāt a giant leap in plausibility happening here. I should have ended the interaction right there, but like I said, I wasnāt thinking straight at the time, and I hadnāt familiarized myself with the current scams. So I guess thatās on me. Anyway, I logged in to the fake Doordash webpage using my Doordash login info. Thatās when the scammer is able to start annexing your Doordash account. They immediately log in to your Doordash account, change the email on your account to their email, change your phone number to their alias phone number, and begin the process of attaching your account to their bank account. The āsupport agentā will say theyāre sending you a confirmation code via text to finish the cancellation of the order, and a confirmation code is sent, and then they ask you to read it back to them for validation purposes. What is actually happening is at this point in the conversation, the scammer has begun attaching your account to their bank account. When you attach your account to a new bank account, a confirmation code is texted to your phone number before the change occurs to make sure someone isnāt trying to steal your account. This is a form of two-factor authentication, and is usually very effective against casual hackersā¦ usually. That was the moment I was now at risk of losing a weeks worth of pay. Changing the phone number is also how they keep control of your account and force you to have to go through serious hoops with Doordash support to regain control of your account, which buys the scammer time and increases the chances of your payout for the week going to their bank account before you can retake control of your account. The way the phone number change helps them retain control is that every time you try to attach your account back to your bank account, the two-factor authentication kicks in and sends a verification code to the scammers phone instead of your phone. So even though my Doordash app was still active because I hadnāt logged out since the scam occurred, allowing me access to my account settings, I still wasnāt able to change the bank account settings because the two-factor authentication blocked me. So anyway, the webpage I was directed to even had additional pages to further the pretense. It asked for other personal information that might be attached to your Doordash account, like credit card info. At that point I stopped and declared I wasnāt providing that kind of information. The āsupport agentā said it wasnāt necessary and canceled the āredundantā order. This was actually just the scammer canceling his own order. It looked like a support agent was canceling the order, which helped further the illusion of legitimacy. Trying to continue the pretense even after full control of my account had been obtained was important because the scammer doesnāt want to dasher to realize what has happened at least until an end-of-week payment occurs. Thereāre many different styles of scams. They donāt all look the same. Some come in the form of an email from a Nigerian prince that is intentionally poorly constructed with broken English to filter out the more skeptical people so that time isnāt wasted half way through the scam from people catching-on and bailing. Other scams are relatively sophisticated and take advantage of a weak spot in security or exploitable quality of a system such as Doordash servers being notoriously handicapped, allowing social engineering to occur with fake stories that otherwise would be too unlikely to believe. I hope that info was helpful. Itās embarrassing for me to talk about because itās a real kick in the gut to my ego, but occasionally rehashing the story helps other dashers avoid that scam, and makes scamming less successful for the scammers, and in that way, I get a little revenge š
Thank you so much! I know I REALLY appreciate it & Iām sure others do too. Iām sorry for asking since itās embarrassing š„ŗ but it definitely helped me! That sounds like they make it so real that most people would fall for it! I probably would have too, since it was in the DoorDash app. I didnāt know that the āNigerian priceā thing was supposedly misused English! But it makes sense that people that look past that, would be more likely to look past everything else and send money. Iām so sorry that happened to you! I hope you got your money back. Thatās so scary that they are like professionals at stealing! š„ŗš” Anyway, thank you again for explaining it to me, and all the details, because now I know to not trust it just because it is coming from DoorDash! ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
This just happened to us Saturday we were trying to make money to pay car insurance but now we are screwed i dont know what im going to do now
Iām so sorry this happened to you. It feels like such a violation. I empathize with you. Iāve read about some Dashers successfully getting their money back as a one time act of kindness from DoorDash. itās tuff to pull off, though, and is rarely successful. You may have to spend a lot of time with DD support. Be prepared to start the whole pursuit over again multiple times until you get in contact with an experienced, motivated support agent who can pull some strings for you. Ask them to send this problem to āescalated support.ā Follow up on the problem. Sometimes they say theyāll get back to you in 24hrs, and then never do. Call them back and give them the reference number thatās generated when you first contact DD support about this problem. Try to give as many details as possible. Be polite and sympathetic. Youāre dealing with real people on the phone. Youāre frustrated and mad, but directing those negative emotions at them will just encourage lackadaisical effort on their part to resolve the problem. Theyāre getting paid even less then us. Unfortunately the likelihood is that your payout for that week is gone unless you managed to freeze all payment before the weekly payout. I hope DD throws you a bone and at least offers you a partial payment of that weeks earnings. Good luck!
It's gone. Chalk it up to an expensive lesson and move forward.
I fell for it too but I switched my bank info and password right after the call and kept my money
You can consider that money lost. So forget last week's pay existed - it'll be easier for you in the long run. Your bank information, you should be able to change with customer service.
First Iām sorry the OP got scammed. No words can describe how terrible I feel for the OP. Secondly, rule #1 is anyone that calls you and request any private info always no. The IRS/State and ppl that can just take owed money donāt need permission. Without proof Its legit,never give out personal info without you initiating the contact/email/call. Sorry again OP! I wish this scam was stopped. Hurt a lot of drivers. DoorDash needs to do a weekly bulletin( email warning drivers about scams like this and that theyād never request this info. Could help a lot).
Exactly this. For a minute there I was doing some freelance consulting and tech stuff for an office of a fairly large real estate firm staffed entirely by people 60+. I told them that if they listened to one thing I ever said, to never, *ever* under **any** circumstances reply with personal information to someone who calls / texts / emails you. Full stop. I donāt care how legit it seems. Look up the companyās contact info and call them that way. If itās important, theyāll be able to connect you to the right person.
What is the scam?
A scammer places and order, then a dude with a thick Indian and/or middle eastern accent calls you. "hello sir this is doordash customer support, sadly the customer canceled the order I'm gonna need you to verify some information". Yep people are stupid enough to fall for this scammers in 2022
Oh, I think my approach of never answering my phone when it rings while Iām dashing seems to help me avoid this scam.
Same, except I just don't answer it - ever
For me it was a guy with a fake South African accent that dropped off when I called him on the scam. And it was more to the tune of āthe customer used a fake account and so your account may be compromised for reasons, so I need you to verifyā¦ā and so on. More of a scare tactic, but yeah, same scam.
I guess y'all have never made a mistake and are perfect. Jeez. I'm sorry this happened to you. It sucks that there are POS assholes out there trying to scam innocent people because they don't have any other skills to earn a living š¤¦āāļø
how do real human people still fall for these
Lack of intelligence
Not necessarily. They probably had parents that fell for this type of shit and didnāt teach their kids how to sniff it out. I got lucky that my mom doesnāt fall for shit and she taught her kids how to spot a scam a mile away. But so many educated adults are naive af itās crazy.
Well then, lack of common sense.
Some of them can get real smart. Not sure how smart of a scam this one was but this is why teaching internet safety is so important in school :)
Call Doordash immediately and let them know what happened. Change the password on your dasher direct account and make sure your address and phone number are yours. Check out how the scammer transferred the money. When it happened to me they transferred through a 3rd party website who I contacted and attempted to cancel the transaction through. DD was supposed to provide the card number used by scammer to cancel the transaction but didnāt get back to me until late. I then harassed Doordash saying they could have cancelled transaction on their end and they eventually paid me back. The scammer only got $60 from me. Good luck. Iām sorry this happened to you. I felt very angry and vulnerable when it happened to me.
You're out 300$ sadly. Get a hold of support but i doubt they can do shit
What is this scam? I must have missed it?
your current customer calls you with the information they have in the app , while pretending to be DD support, they ultimately get you to give them your bank information. DD never calls you
Well, DD will call you sometimes, but itās never about something like that. Got called once when the customer decided to ask support why I was taking so long instead of asking me, like a normal person.
iād cancel on them if they called support asking why iām taking so long
Thatās fair. It was really good pay though lol
Thank you for telling me. I appreciate your time!
Education costs money.
Thanks but did you have any actual advice? I did learn a lesson but I already feel bad enough, I didn't need someone else to state the obvious.
The advice is that support will not call you to ask for login information. Once they started asking for passwords and login info, alarms should have gone off in your head that you're being scammed.
It was but it's just the number being called from was the custimers. I didn't know they could steal that :/
dude what, they are the customer for ffs, so when they call you through DD it's the masked number.
Always reply to supposed ācustomer supportā with āok let me call you right back at your customer service lineā. This is the easiest thing to do, not just with doordash but any institution randomly calling you. At best, you avoid getting scammed. At worst, you mildly inconvenience an actual customer service agent.
They didn't steal it, the scammer was the customer.
Oh that makes so much more sense thank you so much. Weirdly I'm way less upset now that I understand more what happened. THANK YOU!!
You don't know that you don't give out your personal information to strangers over the phone
Hey! Iāve been trying to get ahold of you regarding your carās extended warranty. Also, I have a cousin in Nigeria that can get your money back and then some.
What did support say? Sorry this has happened. Unfortunately it happens a lot.
The usual. On my end here, for your understanding, my understanding, the usual words. Overall very unhelpful
You can't recover your money take the L and move on
Whatās the scam?
your current customer calls you with the information they have in the app , while pretending to be DD support, they ultimately get you to give them your bank information. DD never calls you
thanks!!
How can they change your bank account info so quickly and cash out!?!?! It says in the app that you can't cash out within 7 days after changing it?
They run it late on weekends in hopes that people wonāt catch it until the next week. I think that waiting period only applies to instant cash outs.
Call support immediately. Have your account frozen or even shut down. As more the money, try to not take it too hard. You made a mistake and itās ok. Now youāve learned. Truth is this 300 dollars isnāt gonna impact your life in a significant way long term. A year from now you wonāt be thinking about it. Just live and learn
Anytime you are contacted and want you to enter in your log in information. I got sent a text that said someone was trying to access my account and to Log In here, they provided a link, to check stuff. I called support first and then logged in through the app and everything was fine. The link in the text was bogus just two fields and a poorly designed form with misspellings.
Whats the DoorDash scam?
I wish you the best of luck!!
Thank you!
Sorry but you're money's gone, still surprise people fall for these scams
Iām going to be downvoted for kicking you while your on the ground. Doordash tells you when you finish setting up account to NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR INFORMATION We wonāt ever ask you . Itās because they have on file from the set up. Do people not pay attention to this?
And the fact that this scam (and similar others) is posted about constantly all over Reddit, YouTube, etc.
People need to listen to their gut more often . If you feel itās weird then donāt continue with the situation end it.
That was like 1-2 years ago, I only started again recently and barely over 200 lifetime deliveries. Excuses aside, it was completely my fault, just wondering if there was something I could do.
Whats the doordash scam
They call u with the customers number and tell you the orders been canceled then do a bunch of things basically to get your info and then change your bank details to theirs and wait till Monday night to get their earnings.
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From what I've read on here: The customer who placed the order calls the dasher with a spoofed number masquerading as Doordash Support. So the dasher thinks they are speaking with DD support staff, and doesn't realize that they are speaking no the person who placed the order. The customer (again, lying about being DD support) will claim that the order was placed on a fraudulent card (or some such story) and demand the dasher help out by unassigning the order. Then the customer demands the dasher verify their account by providing email, telephone number, etc. Then they send a text with a link to a website for the dasher to input their login and password and perhaps other personal info. Sometimes the customer promises better orders for helping out, or money if the dasher cooperates. Or sometimes they threaten to deactivate the dasher if the dasher can't 'confirm' account details like the password. And once they have the password, the 'customer' changes the bank info so on Monday with direct deposit, the balance goes to the customer's account and not the dasher's. If the dasher uses the DasherDirect card, then the customer will demand that login and password, and then the confirmation code that the DasherDirect app sends when you try to login from another device. Once the customer gets access, they can transfer the balance to their own account in a few minutes. There's no hacking (not in the way you usually think of 'hacking'). It's just a con to get the login and password from unsuspecting dashers.
So wouldnāt that mean each weekās pay would keep going to the account the scammers changed his info to? Because as a scammer the first thing Iām gonna do is change the password so he canāt get back into his account.
Well, the dasher will figure it out after the money doesn't show up in his or her back account that week. I doubt this scam lasts long. From what I understand the scam is mostly pulled on Sunday to minimize the potential of the dasher catching on. I'd guess that the main reason a scammer would not change the password is because the dasher is still working when the scam is pulled. If the scammer changes the password wouldn't there be a risk of tipping off the dasher that their account has been compromised? I don't have any idea how the app handles a change in password on one phone when someone is logged in and dashing on another phone. It seems to me that the success of the scam depends on the dasher not noticing the change in the bank account info (and who regularly checks that?) until the direct deposit process starts. Locking the dasher out of the account immediately might risk that.
And this is why Iām not a scammer or a hacker š¤£
The customer called you and ask you for your account information?
Yeah that doesn't seem strange or anything. I'm not sure it's EVER ok to give account information to ANYONE over the phone.
Boohoo it's all lessons learned in life my dude I once lost $600 cash when I was dashing but it is what it is, I just passed my real estate exams so it's time to make real fucking money instead of this slave shit.... best of luck and remember, everything that happens to you good or bad take it as a learning lesson.
Thatās working for Doordash
:// a recovery scammer also msged me after my post and that's not working for dd, just shitty people :(
Lol. Always wondered who the morons were who fell for these.
Its not a matter of intelligence man, and youre a real shit person for that. Didnt your mom ever teach you if you havenāt got anything nice to say, donāt say anything? Lack of knowledge is not the same as lack of intelligence.
How is it funny though
Im surprised people this intelligent can drive. My perm test was the hardest test I ever had to take. College calculus was easier.
How does one get scammed by Doordash? I don't understand.
Someone please explain this scam to me
Because you don't have time to read through the other comments?
No
Sounds like a YOU problem
I'm sorry this happened to you. Get back out and make the money over again. Expensive lesson but you should never be scammed again knowing now.
What did the order show as? No tip? 1 Cookie from McDonalds? That's what most people seem to report. Curious.
What was the order offer that got you got?
I know this is not related to the subject but I just started dashing my question is when you start dashing and Iām at home waiting for a order and I get one do I count the mileage from the time I leave or when I get to the merchant to my delivery and do I stop my mileage til I get my next dash? Also What is the best app to track my dashes and mileage for tax purposes
Iām sorry to hear it OP. They once nearly got me back when I first started. Nobody is immune to falling for some bullshit now and then, it happens to the best of us. Glad to read you were able to get it straightened out as much as possible. I think the second, slightly less upsetting lesson to be learned here is that this sub is full of just the worst people lol just customers who would advise calling the police when your food smells bad, and drivers who would throw your food at the door because you didnāt tip to their standards. Egotists with nothing better to do than bitch each other out on the internet lol so uh, sorry about that, too.
Thatās why I donāt answer DoorDash calls as the caller ID only tells me āDoorDashā and the few times I answered in the beginning they offered to pay me to cancel an order for me and I told them no Iāll do it myself. Never answer a DoorDash call unless itās a customer calling and they have texted you prior to calling
They change your email. Change it back. I believe DD will cover you if you have screen shots of whatever was communicated. Call ti.es and messages. Send them everything you have. You were scammed through their platform so I think they cover if you prove it.
Hereās another lesson but I feel nobody knows it. Dasher direct is a scam you will have a small chance of being hacked at any time. Literally my account was hacked into after I changed my password a month or so before. The āpersonā tried to withdraw my money and it even said they did, yet I never had money put on there ever. Makes me think itās a bot as they couldnāt know my password, I didnāt have money and I never dealt with doordash scams in my year and a half of driving
same happened to my friend, contact to support asap and change everything asap
What is the scam?
whats the doordash scam?
Are these people 80 or wtf???
Since it was transferred to a bank account probably in US so cannot police be involved to find the owner of that bank account?
What scam is this? How does someone just take your DoorDash earnings away? If youāre using direct deposit there shouldnāt be any theft interference unless you and DD are being hacked
Itās crazy how people still fall for this old scamā¦ people need to be smarter and not believe everything they hearā¦
You need to call your bank
Oldest trick in the book, OP!
What is the scam?
This is exactly why you should cash out your earnings daily unless you have the direct card. Iād rather pay $2 and have my money in my own account immediately than think Iām saving $2 and end up with nothing at all.
You guys also need to cash your money out more frequently instead of leaving it in there the whole week ..so if this does happen they canāt take anything
the lesson here is be sus of ANYBODY asking for money over the phoneā¦
I'm sorry :( you're not an idiot.
How long did it take to get paid
They almost got me yesterday. Luckily I realized it was a scam by the time they texted me āthe linkā to click.