A former DoorDash supply driver pleaded responsible this week to conspiracy to a wire fraud conspiracy that scammed DoorDash out of over $2.5 million, the US Attorney’s Office in California’s Northern District introduced on Tuesday. He and others made it occur over a interval of months utilizing faux buyer accounts, deliveries that by no means occurred, driver accounts, and entry to DoorDash worker credentials.
Here’s how the Attorney’s workplace describes the scheme. The driver, Sayee Chaitainya Reddy Devagiri, positioned costly orders from a fraudulent buyer account within the DoorDash app. Then, utilizing DoorDash worker credentials, he manually assigned the orders to driver accounts he and the others concerned had created. Devagiri would then mark the undelivered orders as full and immediate DoorDash’s system to pay the motive force accounts. Then he’d swap those self same orders again to “in course of” and do it yet again. Doing this “took lower than 5 minutes, and was repeated a whole bunch of instances for most of the orders,” writes the US Attorney’s Office.
Devagiri faces as much as 20 years in jail and a $250,000 wonderful, and is scheduled for a standing listening to in September. He and 4 others have been charged in August for his or her roles within the scheme, which prosecutors say was carried out between November 2020 and February 2021. The DoorDash worker whose insider credentials they used, Tyler Thomas Bottenhorn, was charged individually in 2022 and pleaded responsible the next yr, the Attorney’s Office wrote in October.
