Mr Alan Lim, Asia-Pacific practice leader at IBM Blockchain Labs, said these cases could involve credit card fraud.
But he added that ride-hailing providers had previously reported such schemes where unsanctioned middlemen used stolen credit card credentials to exploit the inability of these companies to verify the correct users of their platforms.
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