A former DoorDash driver, Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri, pleaded guilty to participating in a $2.59 million fraud scheme involving fake accounts and bogus delivery reports. He worked with accomplices to create multiple fraudulent customer and driver accounts, allowing them to place expensive food orders undetected. By exploiting the credentials of DoorDash employees to access the company's internal systems, they reassigned these orders to fake driver accounts, falsely reporting them as delivered to secure payments for food that was never received. The case highlights serious vulnerabilities within DoorDash's security protocols.
Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri, 30, of Newport Beach, California, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
The group created 'multiple' fake customer and driver accounts, then used these accounts to place expensive orders throughout Northern California.
The conspirators accessed DoorDash's internal systems using login credentials from employees to manually reassign orders to fake driver accounts.
The credentials used in the scheme belonged to two DoorDash employees, revealing vulnerabilities in the companyâs security system.
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