An Irish woman lost €1,000,000 over the course of eight months - as a top Garda sergeant told the Irish Mirror that the public need to be "very wary" of getting caught in investment frauds.
A total of €12.4 million has been reported so far to have been lost to investment fraud in 2021 by members of the public.
The Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB) are tasked with investigating these reports - with Detective Superintendent Michael Cryan telling the Irish Mirror that the numbers are "going the wrong way."