Fraudsters stay on the cutting edge of technology in their attempt to bilk money from consumers, but ride-share company Uber has one-upped them with brand-new technology.For the first time, working with Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, they were able to retrieve a victim’s money with it.“They would call them and say ‘hey, your grandson’s been arrested. He ran into a pregnant woman and we need $10,000 bond to get him out of jail,’” Uber’s Head of Global Security and Investigations Vince Lisi said.In this fraud scheme targeting the elderly, the criminals would then send an Uber, other ride-share service or courier to pick up the money.“So my investigators went and looked at these trips. And they identified a signature for them. Kinda like a digital fingerprint,” Lisi said.A former FBI agent, Lisi won’t go into detail about the patterns so he does not tip off those orchestrating the schemes.Uber engineers created an alert system for that digital fingerprint covering the 1 million global trips every hour.And immediately once it was turned on the system’s first alert came from Brevard County last week. So the company alerted the sheriff’s office.“In this case, we were successful in stopping that money drop and getting the money back to the victims,” said Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Tod Goodyear.The sheriff’s office says that would not have happened if they did not get the call from Uber. And have some advice to avoid falling into these traps.“In all these cases, they are talking about you bringing money to someone to pay for a bail, to pay a warrant to get out of it, jury duty, those things – that’s a scam,” Goodyear said.If you are suspicious, call local law enforcement on their published number, not the one given to you by the suspicious caller. “With it happening on the front end, and the ride-share company contacting us on the front end, it’s going to really make it a lot easier for us to stop the money from getting to the bad guy,” said Goodyear.Top stories:Seminole County man finds security footage of intruder breaking into home2 bodies recovered anchor mishap leads to drownings in Florida lakeDeSantis needles Trump, says he has no experience with ‘paying hush money to a porn star’