Payment Service and Fraud Detection

Our goal in this lesson is to highlight the need for securing the system against malicious activities. We will discuss fraudulent activities in the context of payment. We will first briefly discuss how payment system works, and then how to guard against malicious activity.

Payment service deals with the payments side of the Uber application, including collecting payment from the rider to giving it to the driver. As the trip completes, it will collect the trip information, including travel time, distance, etc., calculate the cost of the journey, and initiate the payment process.