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 a 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, 30, 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 officials.

The police said Devagiri used customer accounts to make big orders. Then, he used an employee's login to get into DoorDash's system and change the orders to driver accounts that he and his friends controlled. These fake driver accounts said they delivered the orders, but they didn't. Devagiri then tricked DoorDash's system into paying these fake accounts 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 he and his friends controlled, and the process started again, the prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said that the employee, who is no longer working there, said they were guilty of planning to do fraud online in November 2023. They also said they were part of the plan.

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 September 16.