SAN JOSE, California — Five individuals involved in a conspiracy to defraud DoorDash, Inc. of more than $2.5 million have been sentenced in federal court, with the final defendant sentenced today.
According to court documents, the scheme took place from November 2020 to February 2021 and involved Matheus Duarte, a 30-year-old Brazilian national residing in Hayward, California; Hari Vamsi Anne, a 31-year-old from Cypress, Texas; Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri, a 31-year-old from Newport Beach, California; Manaswi Mandadapu, a 31-year-old from Irvine, California; and Tyler Thomas Bottenhorn, a 30-year-old from Dixon, California. The group orchestrated a plan to cause DoorDash to pay for deliveries that never occurred by creating fraudulent customer and driver accounts on the platform, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office.
The defendants used insider access to DoorDash’s computer systems to assign fictitious delivery orders to fraudulent driver accounts, manipulating the system to make it appear as though deliveries were completed hundreds of times. This resulted in fraudulent payments exceeding $2.5 million…