what you're about to hear was the worst night of my life I went out to a downtown club with my boyfriend and his friends on a Saturday night my boyfriend and I hadn't been getting along for a while and at some point in the club we had an argument I didn't want to be there anymore so I went outside and called an uber to pick me up it was raining that night so I waited under the awning of the building nearby to the club a white car pulled up in front of me and stopped I
walked over and the woman driving rolled down the window she said uber and I said yeah and then her name she said yes so I got in the backseat I asked how are you and I'm pretty sure she didn't answer when I didn't hear a response to my question I shot a glance up for my phone for a second the woman had both hands firmly planted on the steering wheel she was driving in a very stiff upright position she also had very curly hair in a somewhat darker skin complexion she was driving down the street
I usually took to get home only she was going the opposite way I didn't want to speak up and correct her just yet because maybe she was taking a different route the further we went away from my house though the more concerned and frustrated I got finally I spoke up and told her she was going the wrong way she said in a horrible thick accent something about how she was going to the highway instead I knew for a fact the highway wasn't the quicker route though then my phone vibrated and I looked down to see
the notification from uber it said on my screen meet uber driver now I opened up the app and it said my uber had just arrived at the point I was originally standing at and at the car I was supposed to get in was a black Nissan at this point I started saying in a louder voice to the driver that she wasn't my uber I asked her to pull over and let me out when she didn't seem to acknowledge me I started to actually yell and push at her seat even though the car was moving and
I even tried opening the door but the child block was apparently on after a little more yelling she finally looked at me through the mirror then pulled off to the side the door clicked unlocked and I got out of the car and walked away from it my actual Luber driver was calling me and I picked up apologizing asking him to come to my current location he said he'd be right over five minutes later the car pulled up when I got in the car I explained everything to him he stopped the car looked at me and
told me I just escaped a sex-trafficking trap there had been reports of multiple fake ubers going around trying to trick on suspecting victims and to getting into the car to lure them to unknown locations it was apparently part of a sex trafficking ring and the drivers were usually female to appear less intimidating to the female victims I just want to stress to everyone to make sure the car you're getting into is actually your Ober one night when I was decently drunk after leaving a bar I started messaging people on tinder some girl named Alicia had
messaged me so I messaged her back she answered almost immediately asking what I was doing that night I said I was just leaving a bar looking for someone to hang out with she wrote back you should come over in smoke I said yes I'm your address she sent back her address promptly it seemed like the quickest easiest most ideal tinder match a guy could ask for on a Saturday night I called for an uber to drop me off at that address the driver pulled up in his Honda and I got in the front seat usually
I would get in the back seat but I was decently drunk and feeling extra social the driver seemed cool I was honest with him about where I was going telling him I was about to meet a girl from tinder he laughed and said nice started going on about his stories meeting girls as an uber driver and such on the way there I asked Alicia for her number and she gave it to me I started texting her and she gave normal answers when we got to the house the driver said the house seemed familiar to him
had to admit it did look a little sketchy since there were no cars in the driveway and the lights were off he told me to be careful I thanked him and said goodbye and he drove away down the block and stopped near the end I'm guessing setting up his next ride I walked up to the house and tried to ring the bell but I didn't hear a bell from the inside so I knocked on the door then I tried calling Leisha it went to voicemail after one ring but she texted me right after saying it's
open come inside then there was a knock at the window which almost gave me a heart attack I looked at the window and even though there were no lights on inside I saw the blind was slightly lifted someone was waving their hand on the other side of the window before I tried the door a number not saved on my phone started calling me I assumed it was Alicia so I picked up but instead of hearing the voice of a girl I heard the familiar voice of my uber driver he ordered me in a very concerned
voice to walk away from the house right now I then saw the uber drivers car pulled back up in front of the house he told me to get back in the car I hung up the phone and listened to him as soon as I got in the car he drove away from the house and told me that the house was vacant in just the previous month someone had been lured into that house robbed and murdered it was a story that likely could have been similar to my own had I stepped into that house it was
a lot for me to take in but I think that Huber driver the best I could and even took his number because he was so cool and I couldn't appreciate him enough the next morning when I was sober this was even more disturbing to think about [Music] it was a Monday night a slower night for an uber driver especially in our bum-ass town so when a trip request popped up on my screen I jumped on it I was picking up a guy named John I drove across the neighborhood to a corner liquor store that was
closed at this hour there were two young guys waiting on the corner and when I pulled up to the curb they got in the car I confirmed John's name to make sure he was who I was picking up then I started heading to their destination the two whispered to each other and it was a little odd I looked at the rearview mirror every once in a while and every time I did they would both notice and look back at me I kept trying not to look but I found myself accidentally doing it over and over
I asked them where they were headed neither of them answered I figured they didn't hear me because the back window was open and there was wind noise so I asked again this time one of them yelled Harris Avenue it didn't answer the main point of my question which was to be polite to make small talk but it did let me know these two were not exactly people I wanted in my car I felt my big toe press a bit harder on the guests instinctively just knowing I wanted to get there sooner we got to the
street but the apparent address they wanted me to pull up to was some rundown storefront with a group of guys in front I slowed down and asked if this was it I turned around to face them and saw they were both wearing masks now similar to the masks from the movie the purge I felt something press up against the back of my shoulder I assumed it was a gun they told me pull up to where the guys were outside I did so three big guys also wearing masks came up to my window demanding my wallet
I gave it to them without hesitation the two guys in the backseat got out the five masked men all together walked away from my car one of them kicking at my door while passing I drove away and reported it's uber who said they'd get in contact with the authorities it turned out the info used on that John person's account was all fake and he was using a stolen credit card I lost $250 my IDs and countless cards in my wallet but I'm just happy I escaped with my life [Music] after leaving a friend's superbowl party
I called the nuber to drive me home when I got in the Oberer there was a guy in a baseball hat sitting in the back seat I didn't say anything to acknowledge it I just said hi to the driver I figured I must have called an uber pool instead of just a regular uber I didn't care though he got to my house I got out of the car and shut the door I heard a second door shut on the other side though when the car drove away I saw the guy who had been sitting next
to me in the baseball hat standing in the street facing in my direction but his head down so that his hat was covering his face I said what's up what's going on he started to walk away still I knew something was going on so instead of walking to my house I started walking around the block I saw the man on the opposite side walk across the street walking in my same direction when there was an intersection in the street I turned and I saw he did the same thing I ran when I saw he started
to run - the adrenaline kicked in and I sprinted faster than I'd ever ran in my life I ran faster than him and when I made it to my house I ran to the backyard before he could possibly see where I went then I went into the house I called the uber driver at once and he told me the guy next to me said he knew the next guy the ruber driver would be picking up which ended up being me the driver had his info so he said he would report the guy I don't know
what happened because I never called her a text of the uber driver again I also don't know why exactly that guy would be targeting people getting out of ubers but it definitely taught me to be more cautious with hooba rides [Music] [Music]