# Scams
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This year
2024
Beware
Booking.com denies security breach after phishing scam attempt made on its website
17 hrs ago
12.3k
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Last year
2023
Push Payment Scams
RTÉ's Sarah McInerney issues warning over text scams after falling victim to one herself
25 May 2023
58.6k
19
fraud prevention
Fraudsters 'find it easier' to trick victims into sending money than stealing their identities
24 May 2023
6.3k
5
All time
Fraud
Garda warning about accommodation fraud as victims lose up to €5,000 to scammers
31 Mar 2022
11.1k
0
fraudsters
Pair arrested in Belfast over recent scams targeting vulnerable people during pandemic
3 May 2020
17.7k
11
safe online shopping
Christmas shopping on the move? Gardaí warn to only shop online when on personal WiFi
3 Dec 2017
18.3k
8
Student Accommodation
'The rise of absolute cowboys': Scammers are targeting students desperate for somewhere to live
21 Aug 2017
22.1k
22
Voices
Here's what students need to know when looking for accommodation
Michael McCarthy Flynn
22 Aug 2016
765
25
be vigilant
Travelling abroad? Warning issued as one woman loses €5,000 in Canary Islands credit card scam
3 Feb 2016
41.6k
42
London
Woman who swindled €96,000 from elderly man had "fraudster's handbook" with bizarre 9/11 sob story
11 Dec 2015
20.9k
14
vishing
Three people transferred over €50,000 after getting phone calls from "gardaí"
25 Sep 2015
34.7k
55
bogus callers
Older people driven to banks by criminals to 'take out large sums of money'
13 Sep 2014
13.2k
25
Week in Web
Weird Wide Web: Life on Mars, World Cup withdrawal and sexting extortion
3 Aug 2014
10.4k
3
Good Morning
The 9 at 9
Nine things you need to know by 9am: Anger over the government’s failure to make the bondholders share the pain; Financial Regulator Matthew Elderfield says criminal charges will come, and red faces for Royal aides as they invite the wrong Mary to the the wedding of William and Kate.
1 Apr 2011
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