San Francisco – A former food delivery driver declared himself guilty of conspiring with others to steal more than $ 2.5 million from Dordash by making the company pay the deliveries that never occurred, federal prosecutors said.
Sayeee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri declared himself guilty on Tuesday in a federal court in San José for a single conspiracy charge to commit electronic fraud, said the office of the United States prosecutor.
Devagyrii, 30, of Newport Beach, California, admitted to having worked with three others in 2020 and 2021 to defraud the Delivery Company based in San Francisco, federal prosecutors said.
The prosecutors said that Devagyri used customer accounts to make high value orders and then used the employee’s credential to obtain access to DORORDASH software and manually reallocate the orders to the driver’s accounts that he and others controlled. Devagyri later made the accounts of the fraudulent driver report that the orders had been delivered when they had not done so, and manipulated the computer systems of Dordash to pay the accounts of the fraudulent driver for the non -existent deliveries, the authorities said.
Devagyri would use the DORDASH software to change the orders of the state “delivered” to the state of “in process” and manually reassign the orders to the driver accounts that he and others controlled, beginning the process again, prosecutors said.
The now trainer used in the scam declared himself guilty of conspiracy to commit electronic fraud in November 2023 and admitted to being involved in the scheme, prosecutors said.
Devagyri is the third defendant to be convicted of his role in this conspiracy. It faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $ 250,000. It is scheduled to return to the court on September 16.
