Bay Area men sentenced for their part in $2.5M DoorDash scheme

> Duarte, Bottenhorn and their co-conspirators created fake customer and driver accounts on the DoorDash platform and used the fake customer accounts to place orders for delivery. The orders were then assigned to fraudulent driver accounts.

> According to prosecutors, the defendants had insider access to DoorDash’s computer systems and manipulated them to cause the company to pay the fake driver accounts “as if individual orders had been delivered hundreds of times.”

> The scheme resulted in fraudulent payments exceeding $2.5 million.