Fivefold increase in call, text and email scams reported to Gardaí this month

Last Thursday, April 22 alone, €20,000 was taken from the unsuspecting victims of eight scam incidents in Dublin, Cork, Donegal, Limerick, Wicklow, Galway and Louth.

Last Thursday, April 22 alone, €20,000 was taken from the unsuspecting victims of eight scam incidents in Dublin, Cork, Donegal, Limerick, Wicklow, Galway and Louth. File Picture

A Cork person was scammed out of €9,000 after being informed their DNA had been found at a crime scene by someone posing as a garda.

That is just one of the high-profile scams identified by gardaí in recent weeks. They have warned the public to be wary of a major increase in the number of fraud and scam incidents reported to gardaí this month.