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 police.

Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri said he was guilty in court 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 to trick a delivery company in San Francisco in 2020 and 2021, according to the police.

The police said Devagiri used customer accounts to make big orders. Then, he used an employee'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 then tricked DoorDash's system to pay these fake drivers for deliveries that never happened, officials stated.

Devagiri used the DoorDash program to change the orders from "delivered" back 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.

The person who used to work there admitted in court that they were part of a plan to trick people online in November 2023, the lawyers said.

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.