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Delivery Driver Scammed DoorDash Of More Than $2.5 Million (www.justice.gov)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Devagiri admitted to working with others in 2020 and 2021 to cause DoorDash to pay for deliveries that never occurred. At the time, Devagiri was a delivery driver for DoorDash orders. Under the scheme, Devagiri used customer accounts to place high value orders and then, using an employee’s credentials to gain access to DoorDash software, manually reassigned DoorDash orders to driver accounts that he and others controlled. Devagiri then caused the fraudulent driver accounts to report that the orders had been delivered, when they had not, and manipulated DoorDash’s computer systems to prompt DoorDash to pay the fraudulent driver accounts for the non-existent deliveries. Devagiri would then use DoorDash software to change the orders from “delivered” status to “in process” status and manually reassign the orders to driver accounts he and others controlled, beginning the process again. This procedure usually took less than five minutes, and was repeated hundreds of times for many of the orders.

The scheme resulted in fraudulent payments exceeding $2.5 million.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (32 children)

So many technically smart criminals being busted by just not having OPSEC. Dude did the technical theft and left his IP wide open. Get behind seven proxies.

What a fucking moron. Like DoorDash isn't going to notice this shit?

edit: so it's been pointed out that you must have a legit ID to sign up for DoorDash and they probably didn't track him down on the internut. I guess I have to assume that a smart guy that had a DD account found this hole and exploited it with his own DD account. his. own. DD. account. That's super dumb, even dumber than I thought at first. Why wouldn't he use my DD account? Why wouldn't he use yours? (I don't have a DD account)

edit again: why do so many people want to downvote in this thread and not tell me why this motherfucker is one of the dumbest criminals ever? There's been a few that want to argue but no one can tell me why he's not a complete idiot.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

Did he really just leave his IP wide open? Or did they somehow manage to get through his seven proxies to find him?

I know I'm being paranoid. What I don't know is if I'm being paranoid enough.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

Pro tip if you're going to rob a bank don't use your car as the getaway car. Vinyl wrapping your car doesn't change the fact that it's your car.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

do you have any more bank robbing tips, asking for a friend

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Bicycles don't have license plates 😉

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reddit had an AMA with a Bank Robber ten years ago that they've since deleted for corpo purity reasons 😂

Here's the big points from it:

  • Banks don't care about losing amounts under 5k.
  • Security won't stop you if you don't have a visible weapon.
  • Worst they do is lock the door, so bring a hammer.
  • the goal is to get in, and get the teller to give you a couple grand asap, then leave under 10 minutes.
  • Guy did this to at least 5 different banks (all different companies) in one day, once a month, for several months.

He eventually got caught because of the money he had, not because his face was on every security camera.

He recommends not doing this, as do I, as it's just not worth it.

But just in case you wanted to know how it was done a decade ago, fuck Reddit, here's the details they recently deleted.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Reddit used to have an entire shoplifting subreddit (r/shoplifting for the wayback) that regularly made fun of the loss prevention subreddit and the two subs often stole ideas from each other and would taunt each other. There was obvious sexual tension between them

Ofc it got banned even though it was technically a "roleplay" sub

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

see, some days I'm happy that I didn't grow up on the Internet and on IRC, and some days (today) I'm sad that I missed these bits of internet history. God I love this so much

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I still miss usenet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Usenet and IRC are fucking awesome. I wish we could have kept them around - with some added TLS sure but the experience on modern machines is incredible and it sucks that it's not still mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It is generally advisable to not get caught.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Leave the singing to Sinatra

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