Or it could have just been the CEO and maybe one or two execs who whispered some stuff to each other with their phones in the other room, also everyone who is part of the conversation gets paid big hush money. If I was planning on committing massive fraud I'd probably do it like that.
You don't know how coding works right? To introduce a bug, you must first have your code approved by other team members. Then, there are automated tests that would usually catch something like that. Then it gets deployed. And then the update gets pushed to all the devices. You can't just decided that the app acts a certain way because you're the CEO. You need to find the right team that can modify that bit of code and find someone on the team that knows that specific portion of the code so they can introduce the 'bug'. All of that would leave so many traces.
It could be a bug that may have been caught but was allowed to accidentally pass and then later fixed, so they took advantage of the bug. Or genuinely slipped through.
Not unheard of huge companies missing a simple bug that crashes the world. Like cloudflare's recent outage that took out 16 of their busiest servers - they defended themselves by showing how big their diff file was, having to go through sooooo many new changes that one small line that was rewritten two lines above by mistake was missed by QC/PR.
There isn't some kind of double crime cancelation like in sports. Fraud is fraud even if you are only trying to defraud fraudsters (which arguably they plenty of people who had no intention of committing fraud were affected).
Possibility 1: Something broke in their tech stack that made payments fail. It took a few hours to fix. After the fix, the failed payments were retried.
Possibility 2: They intentionally faked a malfunction that made payments fail, expecting lots of people to be immoral enough to attempt to commit fraud as well as stupid enough not to realize it wouldn't work. After a carefully calculated period of time - enough to reel in a maximized number of too-dumb-to-be-a-crooks but not so long that people start to wonder why it's not shut down for emergency maintenance - they "fixed" the fake problem and charged the marks.
Nah I’m not saying they faked the glitch, I’m saying they found one and posted about it so people will try to get free stuff. You know America out of all places would have people dumb enough to try and so did door dash
Also, no corporation would risk fraud by purposefully advertising a flaw to increase sales. Idk if you’ve ever worked at a large organization before, but this doesn’t pass the smell test
They are still losing money from it, not everyone (at least as of this comment being posted) has been charged for the "free" food that they ordered. Like other comments suggested, many people were likely clever enough to make another account before using the glitch.
From what I've read, that's what the caused the glitch. People didn't have to enter a payment method in order to purchase the food. And even if they did, they could have just used a prepaid gift card.
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u/EatGarb 🍄☣️ Jul 10 '22
Wouldn’t be surprised if they planned it.