Crooked cabbies’ latest scam to overcharge riders is about to come to a screeching halt.
City officials have devised an alert system — using the cars’ existing Taxi TV service — that will tell riders any time a driver tacks an extra charge onto the fare.
The system comes after The Post first exposed taxi drivers who were sneakily adding toll charges onto fares — even though no bridges or tunnels were crossed.
Taxi TVs in 6,610 cabs will be able to flash a message when a cabby dials up a toll charge — informing riders and instructing them to call 311 if the charge was added illegally. Existing alerts inform passengers when the meter is switched to more-expensive out-of-town fare pricing.
More than 1,500 cabs already have already been outfitted with the warning system, with the remainder of city cabs getting them soon.
The warning message will pop up even if passengers have turned the TVs off, officials said.
Meanwhile, the number of cabbies suspected of pulling the toll scam in the past six months has jumped from 11 to 67, officials said.
Most of those hacks overcharged on just a dozen or so trips, officials said, but three allegedly added extra tolls to more than 60 trips.
“The preliminary impression suggests that, out of the 90 million rides we’re combing through, less than 70 of the 50,000 licensed taxi drivers appear to have ride profiles suspicious enough to warrant any severe action,” said Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky.
As The Post first reported, cabby Emad Anwar Nochy Wanass, of Queens, was stripped of his license for tacking on hundreds of sham tolls.