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

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, said 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 officials.

The prosecutors said Devagiri used customer accounts to order expensive items. Then, he used an employee's login to get into DoorDash's system and change the orders to drivers he and his friends controlled. These fake drivers said they delivered the orders, but they didn't. Devagiri changed DoorDash's system to pay these fake drivers for deliveries that never happened, officials stated.

Devagiri used the DoorDash system to change orders from "delivered" back to "in process." Then, he gave these orders to drivers 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, 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 needs to go back to court on Sept. 16.