SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A man faces up to 20 years in prison for his role in a DoorDash scheme that defrauded the San Francisco-based food delivery company of more than $2.5 million, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri, 30, of Newport Beach, pleaded guilty to a single charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Devagiri admitted to conspiring with others to cause DoorDash to pay for deliveries that never occurred, DOJ said. The scheme, which ran from 2020 to 2021, involved Devagiri working as a delivery driver for DoorDash orders.
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“Under the scheme, Devagiri used customer accounts to place high value orders and then, using an employee’s credentials to gain access to DoorDash software, manually reassigned DoorDash orders to driver accounts that he and others controlled,” prosecutors wrote. “Devagiri then caused the fraudulent driver accounts to report that the orders had been delivered, when they had not, and manipulated DoorDash’s computer systems to prompt DoorDash to pay the fraudulent driver accounts for the non-existent deliveries.”…