How a DoorDash driver scammed the company out $2.5 million
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Sayee Chaitainya Reddy Devagiri, a former DoorDash driver, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy that defrauded DoorDash of over $2.5 million. From November 2020 to February 2021, he created fake customer and driver accounts, exploiting employee credentials to assign and mark expensive orders as completed, even though they were never delivered. This operation was executed rapidly and repeatedly, demonstrating a significant breach in DoorDash’s security. Devagiri faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, underscoring the serious nature of the offense.
The driver, Sayee Chaitainya Reddy Devagiri, engaged in a wire fraud conspiracy, scamming DoorDash out of over $2.5 million through fake accounts and employee credentials.
Devagiri placed expensive orders using fraudulent accounts and manipulated the system to falsely mark undelivered orders as complete, repeating this in a matter of minutes.
Read at The Verge
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