Oireachtas committee criticises State's approach to tackling fraudsters 

An increasingly common way for scammers to dupe people out of their money is through push payment fraud —when a person is tricked to send money from their account to one controlled by a fraudster..

There has been a “siloed” approach to tackling fraudsters in Ireland, resulting in a situation where “it seems like everybody and nobody is responsible at the same time”, an Oireachtas committee has found.

A new report from the Oireachtas finance committee has criticised numerous bodies for their efforts in tackling authorised push payment fraud, an increasingly common way for scammers to dupe people out of their money.