Gig App Accounts Are Being Openly Traded as Commodities
Source: The Rideshare Guy
The underground market for rented and resold rideshare and delivery accounts reveals a structural arbitrage in gig platforms: drivers in lower-wage regions can monetize access to surge pricing in higher-wage cities, while bad actors gain entry without background checks. While Lyft launches an AI earnings assistant to optimize individual driver behavior, the platforms are losing control over who actually holds their accounts. Their identity verification and enforcement mechanisms have failed at scale. This creates direct liability exposure for Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash. Regulators and courts are increasingly holding platforms responsible for driver misconduct, yet the companies cannot reliably prove who is driving.