Victims Of Uber Data Breach Are Now Being Joined By Card Fraud Victims

Victims of Uber's customer account data breach have now started to surface. Added to this, are non account holders who's card details have been used t pay for fake Uber journeys. 

Victims have tried to contact Uber on Twitter, currently the only way possible. Most ask for a landline, (you know the one Leon Daniels told the GLA transport committee they definitely had).

To everyone's amazement, Uber still have no land lines for customer queries or complaints. Victims are told to email the company. 

Also, it's no good complaining to the licence regulator TfL, because it's their policy not to deal with PH complaints but to refer the complainers back to the operators to sort out any complaints.

Here is the series of tweets that appeared on Twitter over the weekend.

TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT : 

We know for a fact that TfL are 'Woefully Inadequate' that was the conclusion given when they were investigated by the GLA....but again no action was taken to deal with this, although there has been a few staff changes. 

Because of the way TfL dealt with the fact that Uber are (and never have been) not fit to operated, by the lack of action from TfLTPH, Uber have been allowed to continue, even though their licence has expired. We've been informed by a weak Mayor, the appeal could stretch out over a 3 years period.

We must now get the word out to all victims, from simple theft to sexual assault and rape, that by their actions (or lack of) TfL can and must be held as complicit in any complaint, by fact that their lack of action has allowed an illegal operation to continue.

TfL staff have recently deserted the sinking ship but can always be dragged back to face any charges of alleged corruption or malfeasance.

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Scandal From The Past Jumps Up And Bites TfLTPH On The Arse.... By Jim Thomas.

When TfL moved from Penton Street to Palestra, the trade suddenly started hearing about fake bills turning up, almost undetectable from the genuine articles.

City Police were worried that a Taxi Bill, they were in possession of at Bishopsgate police station, didn't match with any on record, but looked and felt exactly like an original licence issued by TfL. 

There followed a terrible accident in Victoria Street where a PHV broadsided a black cab, turning it over complete with passengers on board. The roof had to be cut off by the fire service to free the trapped passengers but the driver of the Taxi (on rent from a garage in Hammersmith) absconded from the scene, and has never been traced. 

Helen Chapman made a brief statement at the time saying that the copy bill given to the cab owner was a fake. The owner said the copy bill was 'indistinguishable' from a genuine TfL bill. 

We then heard from a whistleblower at Palestra that senior staff at TfL were in turmoil as 5,000 new numbered bills had gone missing in the move, something Director John Mason strongly denied at the time....many in the Taxi trade thought, the man doth protest too much!!!

Soon after the Victoria accident, TFL's PR machine swung into action with a massive cover up, supported by a fake news story about a bill factory in a Taxi garage in East London. 

The episode known as BillGate, was swept under the carpet, much like the 13,000 fake DBS certificates of 2017 which TfL knew about in January, but said nothing about till news broke in the Sunday times after information was given to them by a team from the LCDC. 

The original blank bills from Penton Street, will have run their coarse now and were the main reason TfL were forced to change the design, adding a hologram. 

But the question still remains;

WHY HAS THE 13,000 FAKE DBS CERTIFICATE S

BEEN SWEPT UNDER THE CARPET BY TFLTPH?

The scandal continues..... 

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Ealing private hire driver ordered to pay almost £4,000 in costs and fines after illegally agreeing to take mystery shoppers on trip

Press Statement From PointCab After Fridays Meeting With PM Theresa May

On Friday 5th of January 2018, a meeting took place with the Prime Minister Theresa May. During the meeting, Mrs May was informed of the necessity to grant a full Statutory Public Inquiry into how and why @TfL licensed.

Following the meeting with the Prime Minister on Friday 5th January, she will respond in writing to these requests put to her below. link: http://pointcab.co.uk

pointcab.co.uk would like to especially thank @paulkelly70041, @TootlestheTaxi and @oldunderground for their hard work and assistance leading up to the meeting with the Prime Minister

The demand for a Public Inquiry into how and why @TfL licensed Uber UK must continue.

If you haven’t already done so, please visit (link: http://pointcab.co.uk) pointcab.co.uk. 

After Friday’s meeting with the Prime Minister, the pressure needs to continue.http://pointcab.co.uk)

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Opinion ... Gerald Goureit QC : Uber London Model, Not Legal.

This is one ( if not the best ) Licensing lawyers in the U.K. 

Who is currently working for our biggest Trade Org:

This is his analysis of UBER and our present situation.

UBER have lied to the Courts, the High Court, MPs & Tfl.

So what happens?

They are allowed to work unlicensed, if only our very own Sean Stockings had that chance.

The Mayor should have revoked their license and let UBER prover otherwise, this is an utter disgrace and how UBER must be laughing their socks off at us -

Source:

Grant Davis, London Cab Drivers Club FaceBook Group.

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Letter To Editor : This Whole Business Of Uber Carry On Operating Is Beyond A Farce - by Laurence Green

What possible reason could there be for TfL not to revoke Ubers licence to operate - especially after Uber obtained the license using misleading information – notice how the weakest terms of expression are used and not the strongest, such as corruptly or fraudulently obtained a licence to operate – if TfL were to use the strongest terms, they would have no choice but to revoke Ubers licence.

Meanwhile this corrupt, vile organisation are continued to be allowed to plunder, because lets face it, that’s what is happening – Uber are using predatory pricing to plunder work away from licensed taxis, in an effort to starve us out of a living – while the regulator pulls every string it possibly can to prolong this corrupt strategy to devastate.

The licence extension awarded by TfL and the appeal all points towards TfL playing their part as the conscientious, diligent regulator, while buying time for Uber, who are conveniently allowed to continue operating.

I have written to Anand Nandha, head of compliance TfL regarding Uber P4H at the Saint Pancras set down area, I have also written to Valerie Shawcross - Shawcross wouldn’t reply to me, neither would Nandha – all I asked was a simple question:

Could I ask you who from your legal team supplied you with their legal opinion and what information or case law was used to form their legal opinion that the Uber vehicles at Saint Pancras were not plying for immediate hire?

I had replies from Chelsea Mckinley and Neil Hassett quoting opinions from TfL' legal department, stating that parking alone didn’t constitute P4H – when confronted with case law such as Rose v Welbeck, they run a mile! Why?

What they were actually quoting was paragraphs from a book written by TH Button.

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Here is an extract from a email I received from Luke Howard, Senior Strategy and Integration Manager PCO/TfL from 2009, where he makes it quite clear what illegal plying for hire is:

“Illegal plying for hire takes place if a private hire driver enters into or concludes negotiations for the hire of the vehicle or where a private hire driver waits in or patrols an area in a way which is likely to attract custom. TfL will look at the circumstances of each case to determine whether any actions taken amounted to an invitation to be hired.” ( Luke Howard)

In my opinion TfL are lying through their back teeth about not knowing Uber is a peer 2 peer service, the writing was all over the wall when it was established Uber do not accept pre bookings.

It clearly states in the 1998 PH Act (London) that all rides must be pre booked through a licensed operator. Time and time again TfL were informed Uber were operating outside of regulation, but TfL senior management refused to act. It is my opinion Uber were licensed illegally and this was done out of malice, to deliberately and malevolently damage the London Taxi Trade.

John Mason can spout all the rhetoric he likes on social media that there was no requirement to check how the Uber app actually worked; but there was a mechanism to protect the general public and enforce regulation, it's called due diligence. No doubt he will say there is no primary legislation for that either!

Now we get to the interesting part: Why is Sadiq Khan as a Human Rights barrister of some distinction denying these basic rights to London Taxi drivers, by failing to intervene using the powers of office he holds. The regulated London Taxi Trade has been subject to oppression, abuse and systematic intimidation since TfL' inception – the level of malevolent behaviour by senior management at TfL is unprecedented in the 300 years of the London Taxi Trade.

Why is Mayor Khan allowing this to happen – cab drivers health and well-being is being destroyed, some are facing financial ruin  - meanwhile the Mayor and MP' sit in their ivory towers with their noses in the air, oblivious to the stench of corruption!

Today I asked Gerald Gouriet QC via twitter, if defining P4H by statute could make make current case law redundant – his answer was “Depending on the definition... Yes!”

Now I've said it before and i'll say it again: It's my opinion and belief that getting P4H defined by statute is the last hand TfL and the Mayor will play to legitimise Uber - existing case law is the ONLY thing that Ubers collaborators can't challenge; the only way Uber can carry on, is if the case law is made redundant. I believe this is why Ubers licence hasn’t been revoked. The Mayor and Ubers stooges at TfL are looking to move the goal posts – And parliament will be the ones who screw the coffin lid down on the London Taxi Trade.

The End.

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