Bank of Ireland received 10,000 calls to fraud team over Christmas week

The bank received 2,375 calls on December 22 alone

Nicola Sadlier, Bank of Ireland head of fraud. The company's fraud team dealt with 10,000 calls over Christmas week. Picture: Naoise Culhane 

Bank of Ireland received over 10,000 calls from customers to their fraud support team over Christmas week, with calls peaking from worried customers peaking just before Christmas Day.

The bank's prevention team handled over  400 customer calls on Christmas day but the busiest day for customer calls to the fraud team was December 22, with 2,375 calls received, followed by December 23 (1,985 calls), with over 800 calls received on St Stephen’s Day.