Uber started this shit years ago. If you're desperate, they screw you. You're well off, they screw you. You're in the middle of nowhere, they screw you. There's a holiday/event, they screw you. You're one of their drivers, they screw you daily.
I can't recall if they ever got sued over it, but they're still here.
Considering my website is being hit many times a day by hack attempts from bots running on google's cloud platform I'm sure that's part of it too. Anyone with a little money can apparently run a botnet off their servers.
Hopefully that means less of the little bastards will be in VRC.