eBay Apple Pay support arrives later this year

Earlier this year, eBay announced plans to begin changing the way it handles payments on its marketplace. As part of this plan, it dropped PayPal as the primary payment processor for purchases and announced its intention to begin managing end-to-end payments itself. While it won’t be ready to flip the switch on that initiative until later this year, we now … Continue reading

Elgato Stream Deck Mini slims streamer’s favorite in size and price

Elgato has a new, cheaper version of its control panel for streamers, with the Stream Deck Mini paring the pad down to six buttons, each a tiny LCD screen. The new model follows on from the Stream Deck, launched last year, which offered a quick way to trigger custom graphics, effects, and more while in the heat of a livestream. … Continue reading

‘Vomit Fraud’ Is Something To Watch Out For In Your Next Uber Ride

If you were to throw up in a taxi, chances are you are expected to compensate the taxi driver for the cost of the cleanup. The same can be said for Uber rides, but it seems that some Uber drivers are taking advantage of this and committing what is being called “vomit fraud”, where passengers are scammed into paying a surcharge for cleanup.

In a report from the el Nuevo Herald, it appears that there are reports of passengers who are suddenly getting bills for the cleanup of vomit, vomit which was never there and never happened. This is usually only discovered after the ride when the passenger is dropped off, and they receive a notification regarding an adjustment in the bill ranging from $80 to $150.

When passengers attempt to reach Uber for help, they are usually given the message, “I understand that it can be disconcerting to receive adjustments to the tariff after your trip ended … In this case, your driver notified us that during your trip there was an incident in the vehicle and therefore a cleanup fee of $150 was added.”

There are even photos which show the vomit, which Uber then considers to be sufficient evidence for them to add the cleanup charges to the final bill. Unsurprisingly it can be hard to tell which cases are real and which aren’t, but the company has told the publication, that they are “actively looking into reports where fraud may be detected and will take appropriate actions on those accounts.”

 

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WhatsApp Testing Feature That Detects Shady Links

Receiving spam via SMS is pretty common and unfortunately there’s really not much on can do about it. However spammer have also managed to invade messenger apps such as WhatsApp, and we’re sure that there are many users who have received spam messages on WhatsApp, but it looks like WhatsApp is actively trying to do something about it.

In a report from Mashable, it seems that WhatsApp is testing out a feature that lets it detect links that might appear to be suspicious and will label it as such, as you can see in the screenshot above. Of course this is only a warning and users can still go ahead and click on the link if they want to, but at the very least they have been warned.

WhatsApp has been taking active steps to try and reduce spam or at least taken steps to help educate their users. For example WhatsApp has started to label messages that have been forwarded to let users know that the message might not have originated from the sender.  They have also started to limit the amount of messages that can be forwarded at once to potentially cut down on spam.

Whether or not these tools and features are enough to cut back on spammers using WhatsApp to spread marketing campaigns or conduct scams remains to be seen, but we suppose at the very least they are doing something about it.

 

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