{"id":30142,"date":"2023-06-16T09:49:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T09:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/pair-busted-for-mpesa-fraud"},"modified":"2023-06-16T10:29:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T10:29:35","slug":"pair-busted-for-mpesa-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/pair-busted-for-mpesa-fraud","title":{"rendered":"Pair busted for Mpesa fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>A 22-year-old man from Nazareth, along with his 24-year-old Zimbabwean accomplice also currently living at Nazareth were arrested on January 22 for stealing. Mopeli said the two men went to one Mpesa agent and asked to withdraw M20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter withdrawing, the men changed the sms from M20 to M2500 and showed it to the shopkeeper who told them that she had not yet received the message but the pair said the service was down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shopkeeper called the Vodacom center to confirm what was said but the center told her no such amount has been withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d She then called the police and the men were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first incident, Mopeli said, since police have had reports of other suspects said to be driving a silver Noah and have been defrauding agents in Semonkong, Maputsoe and Roma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. A 22-year-old man from Nazareth, along with his 24-year-old Zimbabwean accomplice also currently living at Nazareth were arrested on January 22 for stealing. Mopeli said the two men went to one Mpesa agent and asked to withdraw M20. \u201cAfter withdrawing, the men changed the sms from M20 to M2500 and showed it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":30141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,246,245,870],"class_list":["post-30142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-lesotho","tag-vodacom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pair busted for Mpesa fraud - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A 22-year-old man from Nazareth, along with his 24-year-old Zimbabwean accomplice also currently living at Nazareth were ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/pair-busted-for-mpesa-fraud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pair busted for Mpesa fraud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A 22-year-old man from Nazareth, along with his 24-year-old Zimbabwean accomplice also currently living at Nazareth were ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/pair-busted-for-mpesa-fraud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-06-16T09:49:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-16T10:29:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/06\/sm_1686894800.369924.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"252\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/pair-busted-for-mpesa-fraud#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/pair-busted-for-mpesa-fraud\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Pair busted for Mpesa fraud\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-16T09:49:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-16T10:29:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/pair-busted-for-mpesa-fraud\"},\"wordCount\":155,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/pair-busted-for-mpesa-fraud#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/06\/sm_1686894800.369924.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"Lesotho\",\"Vodacom\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/pair-busted-for-mpesa-fraud#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/pair-busted-for-mpesa-fraud\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/pair-busted-for-mpesa-fraud\",\"name\":\"Pair busted for Mpesa fraud - 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