Irish people reporting another surge in scam phone calls and texts
In the first quarter of this year, the Central Statistics Office reported a 13.7% increase in the number of fraud related offences reported.
People are once again reporting a surge in the number of scams texts and calls being received.
The scams phone calls vary in detail: some appear to be from 085 numbers but are a digit short of a full Irish phone number, some come from a number that closely resembles the person's own, some have automated messages claiming to be from the Department of Social Protection or the Inland Revenue service.
