How a DoorDash driver scammed the company out $2.5 million

How a DoorDash driver scammed the company out $2.5 million

A former DoorDash delivery driver pleaded guilty this week to conspiracy to a wire fraud conspiracy that scammed DoorDash out of over $2.5 million, the US Attorney’s Office in California’s Northern District announced on Tuesday. He and others made it happen over a period of months using fake customer accounts, deliveries that never happened, driver accounts, and access to DoorDash employee credentials. Here’s how the Attorney’s office describes …

DoorDash Hack - Schneier on Security

A DoorDash driver stole over $2.5 million over several months: The driver, Sayee Chaitainya Reddy Devagiri, placed expensive orders from a fraudulent customer account in the DoorDash app. Then, using DoorDash employee credentials, he manually assigned the orders to driver accounts he and the others involved had created. Devagiri would then mark the undelivered orders as complete and prompt DoorDash’s system to pay the driver accounts. Then he’d …

SFGate: California man admits to $2.5M fake DoorDash delivery scheme | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

SFGate: California man admits to $2.5M fake DoorDash delivery scheme. “A California man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a fraud scheme where he and several other co-conspirators stole more than $2.5 million from DoorDash through fake deliveries. Sayee Devagiri, a 30-year-old Newport Beach resident, was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California said in a news release.”The post SF…