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 government lawyers.

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, said the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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

The police said Devagiri used customer accounts to order expensive things. Then, he used a worker's login to get into DoorDash's system and change the orders to drivers he knew. These drivers said they delivered the orders, but they didn't. Devagiri changed the system to pay these drivers for deliveries that never happened, police said.

Devagiri used the DoorDash system to change the orders from "delivered" back to "in process." Then, he gave the orders to drivers that he and others controlled, and started the process again, according to the prosecutors.

The person who used to work there admitted in court that they were part of a plan to commit fraud in November 2023, officials said.

Devagiri is the third person found guilty in this plan. He may have to go to prison for 20 years and pay a fine of $250,000. He will be back in court on Sept. 16.