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A federal grand jury indicted a woman for impersonating an FBI agent in connection with an international lottery fraud scheme based in Jamaica, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"FederalVania Lee Allen<\/strong>, 30, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and falsely impersonating an employee of the United States, one count of wire fraud and one count of falsely impersonating an employee of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

If convicted, Allen faces up to 20 years in prison for the wire fraud count, five years for the conspiracy count and three years for the false impersonation count.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the indictment, Allen and a co-conspirator in Jamaica sought to unlawfully enrich themselves through a fraudulent lottery scheme targeting an elderly resident of Evans, Georgia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Allen\u2019s co-conspirator falsely informed the victim by phone that the victim had won money in a lottery and instructed the victim to make payments to various people in order to collect the purported lottery winnings.<\/span><\/p>\n

As alleged in the indictment, in order to gain the trust of the victim and induce him to continue to make payments, Allen traveled from Jamaica to the United States and falsely portrayed herself to the victim as an FBI agent.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFraud schemes operating from other countries and targeting Americans often cannot fully succeed without assistance from a co-conspirator in the United States,\u201d said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer, head of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Division<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u201cScammers use many different tactics in an effort to gain the trust of their victims.\u00a0 The Justice Department will actively pursue and charge those who participate in such criminal activity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the indictment, Allen traveled from Jamaica to the United States in early May 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

The indictment alleges that Allen sent a number of text messages to her co-conspirator in Jamaica discussing the plan to impersonate an FBI agent, including a text that attached an image of a law enforcement style badge with an \u201cFBI\u201d logo and the words \u201cFederal Bureau of Investigation\u201d on the face of the badge.<\/span><\/p>\n

The indictment further alleges that on May 7, 2015, Allen traveled to the victim\u2019s home in Evans, Georgia, falsely portrayed herself to the victim as a FBI agent. She provided the victim with a cellphone and directed him to speak with the person on the line, who was her co-conspirator in Jamaica.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese lottery scammers prey on elderly Americans, and convince them to send significant amounts of money based on false promises,\u201d said U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge David W. Bosch of the Philadelphia Division.<\/strong> \u201cThe Postal Inspection Service is committed to investigating and combating these international lottery schemes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Vania Lee Allen, 30, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and falsely impersonating an employee of the United States, one count of wire fraud and one count of falsely impersonating an employee of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,16,3],"tags":[2313,2314,1203],"class_list":["post-21014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-fbi","category-home-main-slider","category-u-s-department-of-justice","tag-impersonating-fbi-agent","tag-jamaica","tag-lottery-scam"],"yoast_head":"\nWoman Who Allegedly Impersonated FBI Agent to Dupe Elderly Woman In Connection with Lottery Scam Indicted<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A federal grand jury indicted a woman for impersonating an FBI agent in connection with an international lottery fraud scheme based in Jamaica, according to officials. 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