Posted on 08/26/2024 9:41:26 PM PDT by Morgana
Hundreds of Venezuelan migrants are illegally working as food delivery drivers across America, DailyMail.com can reveal, showing up to your door under names and identities that don't belong to them.
The troubling development is a consequence of the one million Venezuelan citizens who have flooded into the US, largely illegally, during President Joe Biden's time in office, with many entering through the US-Mexico border.
It raises huge concerns about the safety of the home delivery apps and the consumer's ability to trust who is actually delivering food to their home and family - with customers' personal information potentially placed in the hands of dangerous street gangs.
Venezuelans tell DailyMail.com they gravitated toward the jobs because they're an easy way to make money when they first arrive in the US.
'Before I even left Venezuela to come here, I knew I could rent an account that wasn't mine to work in food delivery,' one South American migrant who works as a DoorDash driver in Dallas, Texas, explained.
While he is authorized to work and be in the US, he didn't want to be associated with crime and asked that his name be withheld.
'As soon as you arrive to the US, the first thing you do is look for a way to make money, and for many of us, that's food delivery,' he added.
But many brazenly rent or sell their food delivery app accounts on Facebook.
The Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area is now home to at least 20,000 Venezuelans, most of whom have arrived since 2021.
New arrivals know it's as easy as joining Facebook groups for Venezuelans in DFW to start earning cash as a food delivery driver - albeit for a fee.
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I'll get my own food thank you.
Once they get your credit card information, it’s unlimited.
Yes, but are children being separated from their families? (rat talking point)
Cash is king.
What jobs did anyone thing the U.S. State Department was going to get them? Deliveries, fast food, landscapers, construction - it’s all according to the Replacement Plan.
Good grief...I'm sure that means there are at least 40,000 in the Dallas area. You can't believe any numbers from those responsible for this destruction of our country.
So will I.
Well, the genie 🧞♂️🧞🧞♀️ is out of the bottle now.
“Once they get your credit card information, it’s unlimited.”
Here’s how to prevent that. A couple years ago, I started using “virtual cards” from Capital One. You get a regular physical card with your real card number. But for ANYTHING I buy online, I generate a virtual card number. You can generate a new virtual card number using their “Eno” extension in your browser and in the mobile app. That virtual number can be turned on and off at will. You can also set an automatic expiration date — I use this for one-time purchases at a new merchant. I set the expiration for two or three days after the transaction. The transaction goes through and the card automatically shuts off. Lastly, the card is tied to only one merchant and is useless at other merchants.
The virtual card connects in the background at Capital One to your real credit card so all of your charges show up on one credit card statement. The merchant never sees your real card number.
If your physical card is stolen (or the number stolen), CapitalOne shuts that card off and issues you a new one. All of your virtual card numbers get transferred automatically to the new card number.
This has provided me great peace of mind. I highly recommend it.
“Once they get your credit card information, it’s unlimited.”
I had not even considered that. It was what else they were up to that worried me.
A lot of these people are in gangs that run drugs. Yea I want them no where near my food.
Or to case your home and evaluate your ability to defend your home.
Interesting. We use a “sacrificial” credit card with a low balance for our online purchases. Any problems and it’s easy to cancel. I’ll look into the Cap One virtual card. 👍
I’ve never been happier with a credit card or a cc company. They are SERIOUS about security and this virtual card approach is safe, easy to use, and fast. I have about 45 virtual credit cards set up now.
The biggest problem I’ve got is getting my wife to use it. She just keeps putting the main card number onto merchant sites which REALLY bugs me.
I forgot to mention you can delete a virtual card with a click, too.
Trump needs to start deporting these invaders, en masse, starting week 2 (week one is reserved for pardons and firings). But I do not think that any delivery drivers get access to anyone’s credit card info.
There have been a lot of people finding spy cams hidden in their yard. Now I know how they got there!!!!
Wanna bet all these people used either Uber eats or Door Dash? Wanna bet it was one of them?
Take a look at the cam on the link!!! You would never know unless you were right up on it.
Hidden camera found outside of Temecula home, raising safety concerns of residents
Another Southern California community has cause for concern after a hidden camera was found planted in one neighborhood, an issue that they fear isn’t being taken seriously by law enforcement.
The discovery was made early last week at a home in the Crowne Hill neighborhood, underneath some branches in a fake bush that was planted in the person’s yard.
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Image of the hidden device and the fake bush that was concealing it in the front yard of a Temecula home.
A wireless transmitter was connected to the back of the phony plant, likely feeding live images to an unknown location, which has the homeowners, who wish not to be identified, living on edge.
“They have a target, I’m afraid it’s children,” they said. “I personally think this is for kidnapping. Why would this device be here? Why would these guys go through so much trouble to surveillance someone? Why would they want a live feed of this?”
Security cameras from another home in the neighborhood show the moments that two men wearing masks are dropped off by a black Toyota Sienna Thursday evening.
“Black COVID masks and white grocery bags cause they’re carrying something,” the homeowner said. “Looked very out of place.”
They briefly left the area when another neighbor went outside of their home, only to return a few minutes later.
Neighbors quickly began to alert each other once the device was found, as well as filed a report with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded to the area, along with a bomb squad to ensure that the device wasn’t an explosive. The entire street was evacuated for the investigation, but since then, neighbors say they haven’t heard much.
“Very little has been done since then,” they said. “There’s a lot of information they can pursue.”
The disturbing discovery comes just days after an eerily similar situation in Chino Hills, where a camera disguised as a rock was found hidden under a pile of leaves across the street from one woman’s home.
Legal experts say that though troubling, there isn’t much that can actually be done.
“There’s something creepy about it, obviously, but we’re on camera ll the time,” said Trusted Sec security expert Alex Hamerstone.
He says that since the crime itself is small it’s difficult to prosecute.
“There may be a littering charge or something like that, or the cameras may be involved in a bigger investigation,” he said. “But, directly as far as it being a crime, generally there’s not gonna be much for police go after there.”
The neighborhood isn’t so sure that this isn’t part of a much bigger scheme.
“Whether or not there’s evidence enough to charge them is a completely separate issue,” the homeowner said. “This an organized effort to come and commit a crime and we need to know what that is and what their intentions are.”
In the meantime, they’re hopeful that others in the area will check their own yards to see if there’s more of the same to be found, especially so they can go back to living their lives on a normal basis.
“No children are coming out to play anymore, they’re inside they’re not allowed to leave their homes,” he said. “We have a credible threat, so we can’t risk putting our children out front.”
Several neighbors are expected to make an appearance at the Temecula City Council meeting Tuesday evening to discuss the matter and seek further assistance from city leaders.
Do you really think DoorDash gives the delivery person the credit card information?
Do you think that DoorDash gives the credit card information to the driver? You don’t think we have homegrown criminals who would take advantage of that if they could?
Do you think that criminal organizations don’t work to by pass whatever security measures companies take?
1 million.
That is roughly four times the size of the US Marine Corps, both active and reserve. Mostly criminal.
You’d have to quadruple the size of every state militia in order to deal with it.
Sure, but in that case it doesn’t matter who is delivering the food, does it?
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