Teenagers arrested as part of invoice fraud investigation

Invoice redirect fraud involves fraudsters sending an email to a business purporting to be from another business and requesting the immediate payment of an invoice or transfer of fund

Yesterday, five men in Cork, Tipperary, Roscommon and Westmeath were arrested as part of Operation Skein and Operation BOXPLOT

Gardaí investigating an international fraud ring have arrested two teenagers in Co Longford.

The pair, a man and a woman aged in their late teens, were arrested as part of Operation Skein, an investigation into international BEC (business email compromise) invoice-redirect fraud being committed from Ireland, including the laundering of the proceeds through accounts here.