Firms warned over website update scam letters

IRISH businesses have been warned to ignore unsolicited letters offering to update their company websites after it emerged a continental firm is attempting to scam them out of thousands of euro.

In recent months dozens of small and medium sized firms across the country have received such letters.

The correspondence from Internet Register Ireland, which has an address in Hamburg, Germany, claim the companies have been contacted as they need to confirm they have updated their domain and must re-register with the Irish database.