Close to €1 million is stolen from Irish consumers every day by a growing number of increasingly complex and plausible scams. 82% of the Irish population are targeted by fraudsters at least once a month.
While you are reading this sentence someone somewhere in Ireland is being targeted by faceless criminals with a laser-sharp focus on conning them out of their life savings and ruining their lives. According to official figures, close to €1 million is stolen from Irish consumers every day by a growing number of increasingly complex and plausible scams delivered via a dizzying array of platforms at a speed most of us cannot comprehend.
It is suggested that 82 per cent of the Irish population are targeted by fraudsters at least once a month, with more than one in three contending with the menace weekly. Despite the fact that this fraudulent activity would be virtually impossible without the advances made by wildly profitable tech companies, social media platforms, mobile phone operators and financial institutions, far too often the ones left picking up the tab – and the pieces – are the victims. There was a time when scams were almost pleasingly stupid
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