The victim was told the fake astronaut’s spaceship was ‘under attack’. A woman has been scammed by a man posing as a stranded astronaut claiming he needed money to buy oxygen. The 80-year-old Japanese woman sent money to an online fraudster who convinced her that he was stranded on a spaceship and needed to buy […]

7 months ago

DJ Carey faces 21 charges. Kilkenny hurling legend DJ Carey appeared in court in Dublin and has been charged with multiple fraud and forgery offences over an eight-year-period. According to RTE, the five-time All-Ireland winner was arrested this morning in Dublin by appointment, and brought to court by gardaí from Waterford. The 52-year-old faces 21 charges […]

2 years ago

Be on your guard. Another day, another pesky scam doing the rounds. Gardaí are warning the public about a fraud that saw at least one women tricked into handing over her bank cards. The woman, a native of Macroom in Cork, missed a phone call from a number that appeared to be the same as […]

3 years ago

An impending gap in the market is likely to be exploited. If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’ve been the victim of or at least managed to escape a scam or two in the past couple of years. Scams are very much on the rise, you see, with An Garda Síochána recently reporting […]

4 years ago

“We will never send a taxi to collect your bank card.” Fraudsters are going to extreme lengths in order to take money from potential victims, and the public has just been alerted of a new scheme to keep an eye out for. In an email sent out to AIB customers this week, the bank warned […]

4 years ago

The victim thought they were sending money to a solicitor. A man in his 40s has been arrested in Tallaght on Thursday (10 February) following an attempt to fraudulently steal money. The Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB) received a report in December 2020 in which a person, who was living in Europe, was planning […]

4 years ago