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by fweespeech 4109 days ago
http://www.licenseplates.tv/replicate_a_plate.php

Actually, its not really a solution. All of these identifiers are easily duplicated :/

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But why would anyone go through all this trouble just to impersonate an Uber driver and assault a passenger?
http://www.januscam.com/index.php/news/125-cab/taxi-security...

http://www.purdueexponent.org/city_state/article_8748c000-a1...

Faking Uber would be easier. Admittedly, iirc, these people were scammed relatively easily and at less of a threshold than pretending to be an Uber drive would require.

Interesting, maybe it isn't that far-fetched after all, though the risks of doing this by impersonating an Uber driver seem a little too hight to convince scammers.