Garda warning as phone scam spreads

More than €240,000 has been defrauded from people in a phone scam spreading across the country.

Garda warning as phone scam spreads
Sat, 26 Sep, 2015 - 01:00
Cormac O’Keeffe

In a renewed alert, gardaí said there had been a “significant increase” in reports of the scams since a first warning in early August.

Gardaí said 19 people had lost “substantial sums”.

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