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Delivery Driver Scammed DoorDash Of More Than $2.5 Million (www.justice.gov)

submitted 6 days 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] -1 points 5 days ago

People being creative in the wrongest of ways

[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 days ago

Woah, 20yrs max..., it seems to only pay when you steal from the poor and have train loads of lawyers at hand.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm struggling to see how this actually made money. Because presumably the customer is paying for the delivery (as well as the food that was never ordered). So the fraudsters would just be paying themselves in a complicated way. My best guess is one of the following:

DoorDash is subsidizing orders so much that this is profitable overall (the amount they pay the driver is more than the customer pays) seems unlikely.
DoorDash is paying the driver multiple times but only charging the customer once. But if this was the case how was this obvious accounting issue never noticed? Shouldn't the books come out even in the end?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

There is no customer involved.

They place an order and pay for it
They force the order to be assigned to one of the drivers
Driver claims the order is delivered
Doordash pays the driver
They overwrite the data so that it goes back to step by 2.
They "deliver" and get paid for the same order hundreds of times.

Books were probably red, but it takes a while to identify something like this.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cool crime

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Love your username 🐍🐓🪿😂

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I thought financial cheats were totally cool now and you'd be stupid NOT to take advantage of loopholes. Unless...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You have to use a corporation to steal money and not face punishment if caught.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

And yet people think love to pretend as if corporate is not the enemy of organic "entities"

[–] [email protected] 130 points 6 days ago (2 children)

DoJ won't prosecute doordash for misclassifying the delivery drivers as ICC and many other instance of wage theft but they got all the reosurces in the world to waste over 2.5 million dollars which is a rounding error for any corpo lol

Tell you you all you need to know about American "justice" system

fucking clowns

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Tell you you all you need to know about American “justice” system

Don't know if you know, but we're going with "legal system" now to reflect the reality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It's a fucking free-for-all now, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

The law is whatever daddy says it is thats the legal system fot sure. But these are criminal charges though and the victims will get sent federal gulag for their brave assault on corpo's bank account. Martyrs!