Phone Cloning Scam
A newspaper in Malaysia is reporting on a cell phone cloning scam. The scammer convinces the victim to lend them their cell phone, and the scammer quickly clones it. What’s clever about this scam is that the victim is an Uber driver and the scammer is the passenger, so the driver is naturally busy and can’t see what the scammer is doing.
Arclight • April 6, 2021 10:00 AM
Even though there is cet4ainly a record of the passenger, Uber is probably not likely to help due to their privacy policy and “not wanting to get involved in a personal dispute.”
I suspect the scammers are aware of this and are taking advantage of the damage being an externality to the party who can help. It’s the same reason you often won’t get a business owner to give you surveillance video if your credit card was stolen or used there or your car was damaged in the parking lot. They don’t want to stick their neck out unless there is a payoff for them.