Five members of a conspiracy to steal $2.5 million from DoorDash were sentenced to a combined six years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California said Tuesday.
The San Francisco food delivery company allows customers to place food and grocery orders on its platform, which are then fulfilled by delivery drivers. Between November 2020 and February 2021, the five defendants exploited this system, prosecutors said, receiving payments for orders that never occurred.
Matheus Duarte, Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri, Manaswi Mandadapu and Tyler Thomas Bottenhorn, residents across California, and Hari Vamsi Anne from Texas, worked together to create multiple customer and driver accounts on DoorDash’s platform, prosecutors said. They placed delivery orders from the fake customer accounts and used employee credentials to manipulate DoorDash’s internal software, manually assigning the orders to the fake drivers…