Scammer Drains $25K from Windsor Restaurant via Uber Eats

0:00It's March 27, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Toronto News today, your AI-powered local news. A restaurant owner and Windsor, Ontario, lost more than $25,000 when scammers hacked his Uber Eats account and swapped out the bank details. The fraud went unnoticed for months on tablets provided by the platform for handling orders. It hit two of his gyros and more locations hard, with $20,000 drained over a full year from the Walker Road spot and $7,000. Dollars gone in the last six months from the Amherst Burke 1. Scammers even wiped the order history to cover their tracks. The owner paused Uber Eats orders back in September, thinking at first it was just the payout delay. It squeezed his eight location business tight, and he's dealt only with his platform for such issues, not others. Police and Windsor's financial crimes unit jumped in after his complaint, helping pull back some deleted account info that revealed a stranger's bank. Linked up. They flagged multiple similar Uber Eats cases locally.

1:02Uber confirmed the shady activity and says they're pushing for a fix. As the probe rolls on, owners like him are calling for tougher safeguards to stop these hits on small eateries.