I thought I was safe from scammy, hustler types of rickshaw drivers when I downloaded Ola, an Indian ride hailing app similar to Uber. Then I met this guy.
He didn't ask me for my OTP; the code that the passenger gives to the driver to initiate the ride transaction. Instead he started driving and tried convincing me to hire him for the day for a temple tour. I already had a good plan for how I was going to spend my day so I wasn't interested at all.
He pulled over and (pretended to?) talked to his wife on the phone, then turned around and asked me to cancel the ride on the app. His English was bad so I wasn't sure exactly what was going on. Did he want me to get out? No, it seemed he was still willing to drive me to my destination for the price stated on the app.
I just wanted to get to my destination and was getting a bit annoyed, so fine, I cancelled the ride. I figured he was trying to earn a bit of extra money by cutting out Ola from the transaction and scamming them out of their commission.
That's when he turned the hustling up a notch, thinking he could win me over by letting me drive his tuk-tuk. I was hesitant at first, seeing how crazy the traffic is in India, but it did seem like it would be fun. I still wasn't going to hire him for the day though.
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18 апр 2020
