Scammers use photos of Army Sergeant in Elaborate Quart of a Million email scam
As you can see from the photos this appears to be of an important serious nature, from good authority.Emails offering 20% of $250,000 for cash box to be sent, using photos and a fake email address to appear like the US Army Soldier in order to gain trust from potential victims.
Following our first story about an email sent to WatfordLondon from supposed Army Sgt. Ann Leigh Hester. first email story here
Leigh Ann Hester (born January 1982) is a United States Army National Guard soldier. While assigned to the 617th Military Police Company, a Kentucky Army National Guard unit out of Richmond, Kentucky, Hester received the Silver Star Commendation Medal for her heroic actions on 20 March 2005 during an enemy ambush on a supply convoy near the town of Salman Pak, Iraq.
Hester enlisted in the U.S. Army in April 2001 and is the first female U.S. Army soldier to receive the silver star since World War II and the first ever to be cited for valor in close quarters combat.
Hester later transferred to the Tennessee Army National Guard. From 2012 to 2014, she served as an instructor at the 117th Regional Training Institute Military Police School. In 2014, she deployed to Afghanistan for 18 months as a Cultural Support Team member. Hester has since been promoted to the rank of Sergeant First Class.
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Last year (January 2015 – December 2015) ActonFraud received on average 8,000 reports per month, with 96,699 people reporting that they had received a phishing scam.
ActionFraud have advised us not to reply to anymore emails, and block them and ignore future emails, as by replying gives them knowlegde this email address can be targeted further in future.
The National Fraud Investigation Bureau will only deal with it when a crime has been commited. ref - NFRC161101619319
We have found aotehr exposed scam with a Hotmail email with the same name profile with some detailed info on ScamWarners and more reasearch shows her photos have been commonly used snce 2011 in various scams, even her name was used with other females pictures prior to that. see long blog here