Officers with the Los Angeles Police Division are warning rideshare drivers of a rip-off concentrating on their financial institution accounts after clients ask to borrow their cellphone.  

In response to police, one rideshare driver fell sufferer to the rip-off on Oct. 24, after responding to a suspect’s request for a journey within the Hollywood space.  

After the suspect entered the automobile, he requested to make use of the motive force’s cellphone to vary his journey vacation spot.  

“When the suspect obtained the sufferer’s cellphone, he accessed the sufferer’s financial institution software and transferred cash into his personal account,” authorities mentioned in a information launch. “The suspect then erased the motive force’s financial institution software, canceled the journey, returned the cellphone to the sufferer and exited the automobile.”  

Police in El Monte are investigating an analogous incident that occurred in late November.  

Authorities mentioned drivers ought to all the time preserve management of their cellular telephone and take into account a stranger’s motivation when asking to make use of or borrow the gadget.