The uh, scams going on out there today are getting wild.
There was this one I read about.
Uh, let me tell you about it.
Okay, so there's this guy named Gustavo.
He's from Brazil, but he was in the US just visiting.
He wanted to drive for a ride share company like Uber.
But he was just visiting so he didn't have a us driver's license.
Now, as you can imagine, a requirement to drive for Uber in the US is that you need a driver's license in the US.
Gustavo thought about it and decided to try to use someone elses drivers license to register to drive with Uber.
Im not exactly sure how he borrowed someones identity, but I imagine its not all that hard to find someones information online these days.
I mean, ive seen people post pics of their drivers license to social media, so maybe he just took one of those and sent it to Uber to pass verification.
Anyway, however he forged the driver details, it worked.
He was approved to drive for a rideshare company and he had it set up so he'd get paid for the work he did.
It was great for him to earn money while staying in the US.
And the money was a whole nother scheme he was working on.
I don't really know how, but he had to move it around in such a way that it didn't look like he earned it through ride shares or something.
I don't know.
But he was laundering the money.
Well, his girlfriend was also interested in all this and she wanted in, but again, she was from Brazil and not a us citizen.
So no drivers license either.