Séamas O'Reilly: If it feels like scams are thick on the ground - it's because they are

When I began writing this piece, I realised I hadn’t had a spam call in a while, and promptly received one five minutes before I sat down to write this very sentence. 

Seamas O'Reilly. Picture: Orfhlaith Whelan

This week, a man in Hong Kong set a brave new benchmark for bad days at the office.

At his job in a finance company, he was called into a Zoom chat with his colleagues, including the chief financial officer of the entire firm.