Uber’s top priority in China, as in any new country, is wooing drivers. Both Uber and Didi have turned driver subsidies into blood sport, often paying them two or three times the fare. Drivers have figured out how to scam the system. In one scheme they buy phones that are hacked to have multiple phone numbers, which allows a driver to “ping” himself from a passenger account, hop in a car and collect the bonus. Uber has said its fake-ride rate is around 3%, but local media estimate the fraud rate at 30% to 40%. Didi says it has “almost no” fake orders. A Guangzhou driver named Liang said that Didi is stricter about banning drivers it suspects of fraud. Uber, he said, started cracking down in the last month.