Fake Uber IDs put passengers at ‘significant risk’

A Uber boss has blamed ‘sophisticated fraudsters’ for the identity scandal which allowed passengers to take more than 14,000 trips with bogus drivers. Jamie Heywood, boss of Uber Europe, said he company was ‘transparent’ and ‘open’ when giving information to TfL about the issue. He said Uber was ‘trying to join the dots’ and work out how unauthorised drivers exploited the Uber’s system and did not withhold information from the regulator. ‘We were being attacked by a gang of fraudsters…