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Some of the tactics could fall afoul of anti-discrimination laws - particularly, grabbing device numbers of cheap pre-paid phones could have an adverse impact on minorities.

Thinking about it a bit more, the next-level approach is to make sting activity look like african-american activity, then grab members of the african american community who now cannot hail an uber and sue under anti-discrimination measures.



Unfortunately, this is standard risk and antifraud, not even just Greyball; many many services I know of outright blacklist/block prepaid carriers, prepaid or reloadable debit cards, etc.

Several places I know of also outright block specific banks and BINs for abuse.




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