7Investigates: Is your ride share driver using someone else’s identity to pass background checks?

by Sam Smink - WHDH 7NEWS

When we request an Uber or Lyft, we assume the person driving us is safe, because they passed a background check.

But what if the person is an impostor?

“At first, I was like, this has got to be a joke,” says Carole Cassidy, after opening a tax form saying she made more than $4,000 driving for Uber in 2019.

The problem was, Carole said, “I’ve never worked for Uber, I don’t work for them, I don’t even have the app.”

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