Internet bank scam threatens thousands of AIB accounts

THE accounts of thousands of AIB customers were yesterday targeted by fraudsters in a sophisticated internet scam.

Executives at the bank alerted the garda fraud squad when they became aware of the attempt to access their customers’ accounts.

The scam, known as ‘phishing’, involved a bogus email, purporting to be from AIB, with a link to the bank’s website and carrying the AIB logo.