DALLAS, TX — A disturbing trend of migrants working illegally as food delivery workers under false names and identities has been uncovered, according to a report by DailyMail.com.
In Venezuela in particular, hundreds of migrants are delivering food to people’s homes while “renting” someone else’s delivery app account, the report says.
If ID verification does not take place, the security of the apps is called into question.
“Before I left Venezuela to come here, I knew I could rent an account that wasn’t mine to work in food delivery,” a migrant who works as a DoorDash driver in Dallas told DailyMail.com.
According to the report, daily posts appear on Facebook in which migrants advertise to rent out their accounts on the delivery app.
“Who rents a DoorDash account?” posted a woman in the Facebook group “Venezuelan Friends in Dallas, Texas.”
There are reportedly at least 20,000 Venezuelans living in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, most of whom have entered since 2021.
Both Uber and DoorDash responded to the allegations by pointing to their security measures.
“Our community guidelines explicitly prohibit account sharing and we take this very seriously,” Uber told DailyMail.com. “If we find that a courier is sharing their account or using a fraudulent account, we will remove their access to our platform without exception.”
DoorDash pointed to information on its website describing its process as “robust, multi-layered identity verification and security screening.”
None of the apps provided an explanation as to why these security measures did not prevent migrants from openly renting out their accounts on social media.
