Um antigo entregador de comida admitiu ter participado num esquema para defraudar a DoorDash em mais de 2,5 milhões de dólares, ao receber pagamentos por entregas falsas, segundo informações dos procuradores federais.

Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri admitiu a culpa, na terça-feira, em um tribunal federal em San Jose, por uma acusação de planejar fraude eletrônica, de acordo com o Ministério Público dos EUA.

Devagiri, a 30-year-old from Newport Beach, California, confessed to working with three others in 2020 and 2021 to defraud a San Francisco-based delivery company, according to federal prosecutors.

Prosecutors stated that Devagiri used customer accounts to place large orders. He then used an employee's login details to access DoorDash software, changing the delivery assignments to accounts controlled by him and others. According to officials, Devagiri then made these fake delivery accounts mark orders as delivered, even though they weren't. He also manipulated DoorDash's computer systems to pay these fake accounts for deliveries that never happened.

Later, Devagiri used DoorDash's software to change order statuses from "delivered" back to "in progress." He then reassigned these orders to delivery accounts controlled by him and others, effectively restarting the delivery process, according to prosecutors.

The former employee involved in the fraud pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit online fraud in November 2023, and admitted to participating in the scheme, according to prosecutors.

Devagiri é o terceiro acusado a ser considerado culpado por seu envolvimento nesta conspiração. A pena máxima para o seu crime é de 20 anos de prisão, além de uma multa de 250 mil dólares. Ele deverá comparecer novamente ao tribunal no dia 16 de setembro.