NYC Grabs Cabbies’ GPS Data, Busts Open $8M Taxi Scam
March 16, 2010 · Print This Article
In New York City, a cab driver can be your ideal friend, regaling you with tales about the Huge Apple of yore, and blasting Boston for an epic sing-along. He or she can also be your worst enemy by innocently proclaiming the credit card machine is “broken” after the ride has ended, forcing you to trek to an ATM, and thus allowing him to get off tax-free. Apparently, however, the truly seedy side of New York cabbies has been revealed by GPS, and amounts to a scam of almost $8.3 million.
Apparently, drivers have been flipping the switch that denotes the type of ride a passengers is taking in order to fraudulently change the $0.40 city rate to the $0.80 charged to passengers traveling in Westchester and Nassau counties. After one rider complained, a commission was established, and began collecting GPS data from cabs in order to review trip locations and rates throughout the city. The commission’s findings A whopping 1.8 million improper fares charged throughout the city, or the biggest fraud in taxi history.
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