Dwayne Anderson, 35, of Hanover, Jamaica appeared in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota at the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA on September 5, 2025. He pleaded guilty in connection with a long running scheme to defraud a woman from California, USA.
Dwayne Anderson
From 2010 to September 2017, Anderson participated in a scheme to defraud the Californian woman. He used phony names when he contacted her by telephone, text message and email to falsely informed her that she had won millions of dollars in a sweepstakes.
Persuaded by Anderson, the woman believed his false representations and sent money to pay various fees and taxes associated with the sweepstakes. He instructed her on how to send the payments and whom to send them.
Anderson repeatedly contacted the woman with additional requests to pay money and told her that if she paid the requested money, her winnings would be forthcoming. In September 2017, he induced her to travel to Jamaica by falsely informing her that she would be able to collect her prize winnings.
Following Anderson’s instructions, the woman brought $1,600 in cash with her to Jamaica and gave it to a driver who met her at the airport. After paying the purported fees, she never received any of her purported winnings and lost more than $181,000.
In February 2023, eight counts of wire fraud were filed against Anderson in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. On July 11, 2024, he was arrested in Jamaica pursuant to the U.S. request for extradition.
On August 22, 2024, Anderson was extradited to the U.S. On August 27, 2024, he made his initial court appearance in Sioux Falls.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), which is based in Washington, D.C., USA. Gary Barksdale has been the chief postal inspector of the agency since February 2019.
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