The issue of people falling victim to scams in Ireland is nothing new, however, the instances in which they occur are increasing, and customers need to be savvier than ever to identify them.
As more and more people are educated on what to look out for with regard to fraudulent behaviour over phone calls, texts, and emails, fraudsters have been acting fast to make their criminal activity as undetectable as possible.
Now, some of the websites used to scam money from innocent people look incredibly legitimate, texts are embedded into official bank threads to make them difficult to decipher and phone calls are made by very convincing criminals pretending to work for a host of government agencies.
