Hear ye hear ye – a new fraud king has been declared; one David Smith of Stamford, Connecticut. Unfortunately, we found out about him through the Stamford Advocate’s report on his denial of a plea deal.

Naturally, his scheme involved DoorDash. But homeboy wasn’t just telling Pajeet at DoorDash support that their shit didn’t come or that it made him sick. He had a very elaborate scheme, and he managed to drain the paychecks of dashers. While we don’t condone this ethically, it has given us intel on phishing and social engineering that will inform our future fraud protection practices.

Buddy would initiate an order, usually to California addresses. Then he would use an app to spoof the number of DoorDash support and call the driver to tell them that the order was placed with a stolen card and the dasher’s account would be frozen. The dashers were told to verify themselves to unfreeze the account, and Smith would send them a link to a phishing website that mimicked DoorDash’s support pages. Through this method, he gained access to their DoorDash accounts, changed their bank info to one of his own debit cards, and cashed out the dashers’ pay. Any dasher with half a brain would have seen through this but apparently, it worked a shitload of times because he was able to siphon nearly a million dollars over the course of a few years.

In classic defiance of the law, pigs got him for this scheme because of shit they saw on an unrelated domestic issue. As always, a woman leads to a powerful man’s downfall. Homie probably wasn’t planning on being caught, so saving in cash (which got seized) turned out to be a bad idea. Had he held on to that wealth in some other form, he probably could have gotten a top-notch attorney and been on his merry way.

Bro was also found “illegally” practicing his Second Amendment rights, so he gains even more points on our scorecard. When all is figured out in this young gentleman’s fate, we will try to correspond with him and send him some care packages including Clout Engine merch to help ease his time in the big house. We gotta give him credit for a pretty cool mugshot, too. Way to hold it together, bud. You’re almost smiling. It’s reminiscent of the mugshot of a buddy of ours.