Scammers calling Doordash Drivers and Stealing Private Bank Account Information

There has been a scam going around for some time now that thieves have been using to steal dasher's money from their bank accounts. I must admit that it is a pretty slick scam. I am confident that most dashers would not give these thieves enough information to make their efforts worthwhile, but the sad part is that these thieves just need a small percentage of dashers to fetch to accomplish their goal.

Why am I writing about this topic tonight? Well, after hearing about the scam for such a long time, I was finally a target of this hideous crime. Of course, they did not get very far with me, but I will talk more about that later. First, I want to explain how the scam works, and hopefully give a warning to those that don't know about it.

How scam artists steal Doordash driver's money

There are different variations of how this evil plot works, but I am going to give the basics. The plot to steal your Doordash money from your bank account starts with a simple and natural looking order. You get a ping, you check the details of the order to see if you are going to accept it, you decide to accept it, and you are then on your way to the restaurant to pick up the food.

Everything will seem normal, but then, as you are driving to the restaurant, you will receive a call from the famous 650 numbers that we all associate with Doordash. Your phone will ring, and as any experienced dasher knows, when you see that 650 number displayed it means Doordash business. This is nothing unusual as every once in a while you will receive a call to inform you, the dasher, about something.

When you answer your phone, it will be a Doordash customer service rep. Well, at least that is who they will say they are. The rep will confirm your name, your current order customer's name, and the restaurant that you will be picking up from. Since this person supposedly works for Doordash, they will know a lot about you and your current order. The caller will make sure that you know that they know all of this information about you so that you can trust them. During your conversation, they will even act concerned about your safety and well-being, and may even hype up the great work that you have been doing for Doordash. All of this is to gain your trust.

If you have not figured it out yet, it is not really a Doordash customer rep that is calling the dasher. It is the scammer that is calling the dasher and pretending to be a Doordash representative. The scammer here is the Doordash customer who's whole purpose here for placing the order is to make this phone call to the dasher.

How does the customer/scammer have so much information about the dasher? How does the scam-artist know the dasher's name, customer's name and restaurant that the dasher supposed to pick up from? All of this is really easy. Since the scammer is the customer, they receive their dasher's name as all customers do. They will also know the name of the restaurant since they are the one that placed the order with a fake name and fake address.

As I already mentioned, there are variations of what the scammer may say to you. A popular one is that the customer wants to cancel the order. A dasher will of course want to get this cancellation done as soon as possible so that they can go on with their day and make money with new orders. They don't want to be prevented from getting new orders because this order is stuck on their screen. The fake Doordash rep / scammer / customer (don't know what to call them now)  may say that for verification purposes they will need to verify your email address. Once this is given out, they will ask the dasher to verify their password. I honestly believe that most dashers would end the conversation right here, but I know that there will be a small percentage of dashers that would give their password to the caller. The caller has gained their complete trust, and there is no doubt in the dasher's mind that this is a legitimate call so why wouldn't they? They want to get this order off of their screen as soon as possible so that they can continue working. Some dashers will not feel any threat from the caller. The caller never talked about bank information or anything like that. Of course, some people are more gullible than others, but that does not mean that a thief has the right to rip them off of their hard-earned money.





To make matters worse, the caller may even seem more legit when they seem to magically make that order vanish from your app. In reality, they most likely just canceled the order as a customer always has the right to do so. Unfortunately, to the dasher, it just make the caller/scam artist seem more legit.

I'm sure most have figured it out now, but for those that haven't here it is. When the scammer got the dashers email address and password, they were able to log-in to the dasher's account. Once in the dasher's account, the scammer is able to change any bank information on that account. If the dasher uses fast pay, which is very popular to use these days, the scammer can have the dasher's money in their bank account within minutes. I'm sure the scammers would go and withdrawal this money as soon as possible as the bank account that they are using is most likely not legit. They would have to be some real idiots to have money transferred to a bank account with their real name. I'm sure there is a scam on the receiving end of the money also. What if the dasher never uses the fast pay option though? The scammer can probably just create one and have the money transferred the same way. The scammer can also change the direct deposit information on the account. When pay day comes, all of the money will go to the scammers bank account and not the dashers.

Doordash Drivers - Never give out your email address and password information to anybody

I will say once more, there are many variations of stories that these scam artist will come up with. No matter what the story is, you have to remember to never give out your email address or password to anybody, not even a legit Doordash rep. What would they need it for? They would never need it! There is no reason for them to have it. Doordash drivers - Never give out your email address or password to anybody! It does not matter what situation you are in. If they are asking for your email address and password, they are scam artist that want to rip you off and take all of your Doordash earnings.

Scam artist tried to steal this dasher's money

I am honored to say that I have finally received the scammer phone call from thieves that wanted to steal my Doordash account information and steal my money. Of course I'm joking here about being honored, but it is the first time that I have ever received a phone call from these fraudsters after hearing and reading so much about it. This is my story and my whole reasoning of writing this article tonight. Let me first say that I have always heard about this scam so it did not catch me by surprise. The person that called me and tried to scam me I must say was not very good at what they were trying to do. With that said, I can easily see how a dasher can get scammed though if they were ignorant of this scam, and the con-artist was very good. Anybody that has read this article should never get scammed. It does not matter how smooth of a talker the con-artist is, you know not to give out any of your information!

 

This is how it went down for me. I received an order for a restaurant and accepted it. As I was driving to the merchant, my phone rings and it is from a 605 phone number. First off, let me say, that the caller is lucky that I even answered. Yes, I am that dasher that will usually not answer the phone even though I know it could be Doordash or the customer. I figure if it is something real important, they will end up texting me. I don't need a customer asking me how long I will be or any other unnecessary questions. Anyways, I answer the phone, and the caller asks for me by my name. This guy claims to be a Doordash rep and tells me that he is aware that I am on an order for so and so from so and so restaurant. He knows everything that is going on.

For some reason, as this guy is talking, I suspect right away that this is some kind of fraud going on. Something about the tone of this guy did not make any sense. I do know that when Doordash calls me, 99 percent of the time they have an accent going on. I believe it is a Filipino accent, but I may be wrong. I say 99 percent of the time because there has been a few times when I have talked to a Doordash rep that had an American tongue. When this guy was talking though I pictured a young American beach boy hanging out at the Santa Monica Pier. He didn't sound professional to me and seemed to nervous and anxious to get where he wanted with me in the conversation.

He told me that there would be a slight delay with my current order. He also told me that this call is being recorded and asked if I could pull over. I guess he wanted me to feel like he cared for my safety by having me not talk on the phone and drive at the same time. I did not let this conversation get very far as I was not in the mood. I sure wish I was in a different mood though because I would have played along with this idiot for a long time. Again though, I was not in a playful mood. I knew he was a scammer and just hung up on him. The scammer called back again, but I did not answer.

 

Knowing that this was a scam and figuring that the scammer would try to cancel the order as soon as they could, I put the pedal to the metal so that I could get to the merchant as soon as possible so that I could get the food before they cancel the order. I got to the restaurant in a few minutes, and I received the food from the worker. I asked the worker if anybody had called them about a problem with the order and she said no. From her end the Doordash order was just as normal as any other.

I get to my car, and the order has still not been canceled. I'm thinking, okay, maybe I will get to meet the fraudsters when I deliver the food. Then I think, maybe these guys will try to be tough guys when I get there since I just hung up on them. I get my old baton from the trunk of my car and put in under the passenger seat. I'm thinking way ahead of myself, but I have to think about protecting myself.

I look at the customer's address and there is something strange about this address. There is no numeric number to the address. It is just the name of a local street. I do not remember the exact name of the street, but it looked something like this: Cream St., City, CA, 99999. This customer did not have a precise location for me to deliver to. Now it is making more sense to me. Why in the heck would they have a precise address for me to deliver to? The delivery is the last of their concern. When doing their scam, does it all supposed to even get this far?

I was now getting in the mood to play with these guys. I texted them that they are missing the numeric part of their address and that without it I could not deliver their food. I told them to get back to me ASAP. I tried calling them a few times to talk to them, but they would not answer my phone calls. They would not fetch as they did not like me very much.

While this was going on, I also contacted Doordash customer support and let them know the deal of what just happened. I told the rep exactly how everything went down, and how this person calling me was one of the con-artist that calls Doordash drivers with the agenda of stealing their bank account information. The Doordash rep said he did not know if it was a scammer or not. In other words, he was questioning my intelligence and doubting what I said. I told him that he better send the details of this order to the Doordash fraud department (if that even exist.) Unfortunately, all this Doordash rep wanted to do was call the customer to get the numeric part of the address. The rep told me that he was going to make that call, and I told him good luck with that because the fraudsters are not going to answer any Doordash phone calls as I have tried. There is no reason for them to answer any phone calls for this order. They did not get any dashers personal information, and this order is now useless to them. They most likely have moved on to another dasher.

 

Doordash, well, at least this Doordash customer rep, did not seem very concerned about what had just occurred, and after the whole ordeal was done with, I began to think about how helpful Doordash would be if a dasher were to actually get robbed of their money. I can't help to think that a dasher would not get very much help. I don't know for sure, and I do not want to ever find out. Surely, any dasher reading this will not want to find out either, and the only way to guarantee that is to never share any of your Doordash personal information with anybody; no matter who they claim to be.

What kind of people would steal a dasher's money?

I'm pretty sure that some of the characteristics that fit these scam artists are lazy, bum, loser, coward, and the list could go on and on. These are people with no morals that are looking for a quick buck in life without working for it. They do not consider in their minds that other people have worked very hard for their money, nor do their limited minds even give them a chance to care. These are people who constantly have the words "Me" and "I" going through their thoughts all day and never acknowledge the words "You" or "Them."

These con-artist that are going after Doordash drivers are small time criminals. If they get busted for this, whether they succeed or not, it is a serious crime. Think about this, they are risking getting busted and doing some serious time for a small amount of cash. Even if they were able to succeed and get five dashers whole checks for the week and come up with $4000 or $5000, is it really worth the risk? It is not a lot of money! All that amount of money does is pay my bills for the month! Certainly not worth the risk!





Small time criminals like these Doordash scam artists are the bottom of the barrel to me. They are a bunch of idiots that will eventually get busted for stupid crimes and get locked up with the big boys. They are likened to a small time drug dealer down the street that does years in prison when he gets busted for his $3000 per month operation. If he was smart, he would have gotten in on big time drug dealing and brought in millions per year. I am in no way condoning drug dealing. My point is that if you are going to take a risk of getting busted, go all the way with it. Don't just put your toes in it, put your whole body and soul in to it and go for the whole gusto. My point here - these small time Doordash scam artists are a bunch of loser and coward punks. They are wet behind the ears and have no idea what life is really about. They are punks that think they are street smart but have never been properly schooled.

These idiots know that there are good people out there that are hard working, and they know that a small percentage of them are gullible. They know that all they need is a few. Don't let one of those few people be you. I'll say it one last time: DOORDASH DRIVERS - DO NOT EVER GIVE OUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS OR PASSWORD TO ANYBODY!