A Phishing Scam Targeting Postmates Drivers Pretends to Represent the Company to Empty Out Victims’ Accounts
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This illustration photo taken on June 30, 2020 shows the logo of delivery app Postmates on a smartphone screen in Los Angeles.
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As if gig workers didn’t have it hard enough already, they now have to be on the lookout for possible phishing scams from malicious actors that pretend to represent their company.
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An in-depth report by the Markup published this week describes the phishing scams, which the outlet states have affected hundreds of Postmates drivers. The scams typically work like this: Bad actors place an order to be able to talk to the driver, they call the driver pretending to be Postmates employees, and then con the drivers into giving up their logins and passwords.
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