How DooDash driver deceived the company $ 2.5 million

The former DOORDASH Delivery Driver this week admitted to conspiracy to conspire fraud on wires that deceived Doordash from more than $ 2.5 million, the US Public Prosecutor’s Office in the Northern California region Announced. He and others have achieved this for months using fake customer accounts, connections never occur, drivers accounts, access to a Doordash employee accreditation data.

Here is how the lawyer’s office describes the planned. The driver, Saye Chaitainya Reddy Devagiri, submitted expensive requests from the customer account in the Doordash application. Next, using the DOORDASH employee accreditation data, he manually set orders to the driver’s accounts that he and the others created. Next, Devagiri distinguishes uncomfortable requests as a complete Doordash system and demands the driver’s accounts. Then he replaced these same requests to “in the process” and did them again. “It took less than five minutes, and hundreds of times repeated for many orders,” the US Public Prosecutor’s Office writes.

Devagiri faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $ 250,000, and a hearing is scheduled to be held in September. He and four others He was accused in August For their roles in the scheme, which general prosecutors say it was implemented from Nouf Written in October.