Five people, including two from the Bay Area, have been sentenced to prison terms and restitution for their parts in a strange fraud scheme involving the creation of sham driver and customer accounts on the DoorDash platform.
The public learned of the case in October 2024, when four individuals were arrested in connection with a conspiracy to defraud DoorDash. The scheme involved the use of fake customer and driver accounts, and the creation of fake orders for which the drivers would be paid using inside access to the backend of DoorDash’s systems.
The arrestees were 30-year-old Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri and 29-year-old Manaswi Mandadapu, both in Orange County, along with 30-year-old Hari Vamsi Anne of Cypress, Texas, and 29-year-old Matheus Duarte, a Brazilian national who was arrested in Mountain House, California, and who now resides in Hayward…