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.
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.
Where did you see that? I didn’t see anything in the article or in the linked indictment article.
It’s an assumption
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.
i’d go with 8 proxies and a dial up modem on one end just to be safe.
Or you could just not rip off DoorDash for 2.5mil
I’m not here to help you commit fraud.
Not sure you can defraud a criminal organization.
I mean, it is fraud, but I didn’t see nothin’ 😏
Fraud is something that a prosecutor has to prove in the court of lawhat we got her eis some allegations made by a corpo parasite.
Looks like DoJ wasted taxpayer resources to make corporate feel better
Of course you can.
edit: how do people not realize you can steal from criminals?
Bootlicker detected…
Albut hey at least somebody thought about the corpo🤡
I like people like you. You make me feel better about my intelligence.
You remind me of that one kid in class who was intelligent enough to realize the teacher forgot to assign homework, but lacked the wisdom to shut the hell up and walk out the door.
You remind me of that one kid in class who never got a date.
(WTF? How can a joke reply generate this level of acrimony?)
I don’t think doordash lets you use a VPN.
Many platforms that deal with finance would reject an order when they detect VPNs or Tor (since that’s what fraudsters and scammers use), or they ask for additional verification (like SMS) to verify you are in fact the account holder. So they probably were just using their real IP address.
Well in this case a proxy isn’t a VPN, but an intermediate the criminal has taken control of. A proxy does not have to be legitimate.
True, but again, you’re making a lot of assumptions here. I don’t see anything about proxies anywhere.
He probably got caught because of an internal audit, that’s the assumption I would make.