Stolen ID card was used to open an Uber Eats account in my name. Found out via tax declaration
Just venting: Wallet got stolen in Brussels last summer. Nothing violent - they opened the car (or I forgot to lock) and took it. Made some consumptions with debit cards but nothing major.
I called Card Stop the same day, next day filed a police report, got a new residence card, moved on with life. So far so good.
Fast forward to today. I sit down to file my tax return on Tax-on-Web and there is a fiche sitting in my dossier saying I made 3.200 EUR as an Uber Eats courier between November and December. I have never registered in Uber Eats.
What happened: Evidently, someone used my stolen ID card to register as a courier on Uber Eats. The card had been flagged as stolen in CHECKDOC when they enrolled. Uber CLEARLY did not check. Their compliance partner (KPMG) then issued a tax form to the SPF in my name for income I never earned.
So I spent my day:
- Filing a second police report (this time for the Uber fraud)
- Filing my tax return with the disputed amounts set to zero and a written note
- Sending formal mises en demeure to Uber and to the tax advisor
- Saving every screenshot like my life depends on it
I find it incredible that they can just "accept" identities just that easily. Not even the most minimum checks? CHECKDOC is supposed to protect you but it only works if companies actually check it. Apparently a lot of platforms do not.
Has this happened to anyone else here? Curious if Uber actually responds to these notices or if they just stall until you give up?