Uber driver tried emotionally scamming me today with a fake crying story — please stay aware
This happened to me today during an Uber ride, and I genuinely want people to stay aware of these kinds of scams.
After the driver dropped me at my PG, he showed me the scanner for payment and suddenly started crying. But the acting was SO obvious — there were literally no tears in his eyes. I asked him what happened, and he said that while he was dropping me, he had just received news that his dad met with an accident.
Then he started giving a whole emotional story saying his dad’s head stitches had opened up, part of his head was injured badly, his eyes were affected and he couldn’t even close them properly, and that his mom was at the hospital with him. He also kept mentioning that he urgently had to go back to his village and that the ticket money was very expensive.
He never directly asked me for money, but it was very clear he was trying to emotionally manipulate me into paying extra.
The weirdest part? He told me that he had “joined Uber today.” But when I checked his profile, Uber itself showed that he had completed around 2 years on the platform.
That’s when the whole thing started feeling like a scripted scam. I honestly don’t know how many people may have fallen for this and paid extra out of sympathy.
Just posting this so people stay careful. Helping someone genuinely is one thing, but emotional manipulation and fake crying to get extra money from passengers is not okay.