A person who used to deliver food admitted they worked with others to trick DoorDash. They made the company pay over $2.5 million for deliveries that never happened, according to the government.

Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri said he was guilty in court in San Jose on Tuesday. He admitted to working with others to commit wire fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Devagiri, who is 30 years old and from Newport Beach, California, said he worked with three other people in 2020 and 2021 to cheat a delivery company in San Francisco, according to government lawyers.

The police said Devagiri used customer accounts to make big orders. Then, he used another worker's login to get into DoorDash's system. He changed the orders to go to driver accounts that he and his friends controlled. These fake drivers said they delivered the orders, but they didn't. Devagiri changed the system to pay these fake drivers for deliveries that never happened, police said.

Devagiri used the DoorDash system to change the orders from "delivered" to "in process". Then, he gave the orders to driver accounts that he and his friends controlled, and started the process again, according to the people investigating the case.

Prosecutors said that the employee, who is not working there anymore, said they were guilty of planning to do fraud online in November 2023, and admitted they were part of the plan.

Devagiri is the third person found guilty in this plan. He could go to prison for 20 years and pay a fine of $250,000. He needs to go back to court on September 16.