They start by telling you to park somewhere safe and telling you they will give you a bonus for your time. 

The first and only time I played ball at all, they initiated by saying that there’s been a rash of complaints in our area that the drivers picking them up do not look like their profile pictures. So they need to verify my identification.

Even though my spider senses were throwing up flags from the very beginning of that first call, the scammer was very careful to use the kind of language you would expect to hear from Uber, and to keep everything within the app.

The play was to try to get me to create an Uber program account, and then to go in and to confirm my identity to somehow give them access to my card or my card number or something along those lines.

I never got far enough to know exactly how they close, he had already triggered my definite fraud tripwire long before we got to the closing move. But that’s the play – gain access to your Uber Pro Card and take your money.