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Delivery Driver Scammed DoorDash Of More Than $2.5 Million (www.justice.gov)
submitted 1 day ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

Simple. Manual reassigns are very unusual and that all being done by one employee (like an actual employee of Doordash that works on the digital platforn, not a driver), and they all are assigned to a small group of drivers. That would look very obvious if someone looked at the logs.

All they need is one confession from any of the driver, or the employee involved in this scheme, then the whole thing unravels.

Also, I'm under the impression that they stole customer accounts to make those orders. Customers would've reported that fraudulent purchases were made.