Scams

Bank of Ireland are advising customers and the general public to be particularly vigilant. File photo of an…

Via iStockphoto / @arock_starr TikTok Lately, it seems like there are fewer and fewer reasons to carry around…

The nation’s digital payment ecosystem has reached a new milestone, with Unified Payments Interface (UPI) recording 24,162 crore…

PayNow users will no longer be able to use nicknames in lieu of their actual names from June…

Ireland’s surveillance and security laws have been described as “seriously out of date” in a stark warning from…

I recently witnessed how scary-good artificial intelligence is getting at the human side of computer hacking, when the…

The advent of AI hacking tools has raised fears of a near future in which anyone can use…

53% of people in Ireland have been affected by a home repair or contractor scam; these include unregistered…

A data harvesting app called Freecash appears to have tricked users as it quickly rose to the top…

Hong Kong taxpayers may have to shoulder nearly HK$28 billion (US$3.57 billion) in bad loans from a now-defunct,…

An iPhone user badly needed to charge their device in a hotel, and what happened next prompted them…

The current wave of scams involves fraudsters pretending to be a family member with a damaged or lost…

Bank of Ireland customers warned over scam that starts with a simple text