Walmart Is Paying Some Delivery Drivers to Verify Their Identities. Here's Why.

Walmart has started a caller programme to verify transportation drivers' identities — and is paying them to do it.

Business Insider reports that immoderate gig workers for Spark, an app utilized by independent contractors to present orders aliases shop for businesses, received a connection asking them to bring their driver's licence to a Walmart shop and offered a one-time $15 costs for doing so. "All drivers successful your area will request to complete an in-person personality verification," said the message, successful part.

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Retail newsman Alex Bitter writes that this in-person ID cheque "appears to beryllium Walmart's latest effort to deter group who are utilizing Spark nether identities different than their own."

"We're ever looking astatine caller and innovative information technology," a Walmart spokesperson told BI. "This is simply a aviator we are testing successful definite markets, and we will measure the results earlier making immoderate longer-term decisions."

Identity fraud has been a problem for galore transportation apps. Walmart reported a Spark hacker attack earlier this twelvemonth that accessed 200 accounts.

A newsman successful Jacksonville, Florida was 1 of the victims of the January hack — he recovered a fraudulent $528.04 complaint connected his account, per Action News Jax.