{"id":299140,"date":"2026-02-15T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299140\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:41:07","slug":"why-is-revolut-so-interested-in-irish-social-media-users-getting-scammed-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299140\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Revolut so interested in Irish social media users getting scammed? &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE9rcnNfWWZVNE5pSmVma2ptZ0ctdlZOank3T3hDcTRQcXJzNHB0Y3hXMVhGTTE0ZmJGT2k4RDZCY2FlSXFlUXltMGlQd3NMZU55akt4dnIyc2xzYTFGMVpjT1VRZUdFSFgzZnFUblV3ampxYWVwOWxqN3QyeGVMcjg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why is Revolut so interested in Irish social media users getting scammed?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMid0FVX3lxTFBOQnd4V1AxdlJIczRlOHRidkZmYXNqUE4tYU9STUdVMWYtazRiSEV4SFZlV1ljVzlXSUNtd3FLT2tZWEYxTjZSQzRxcmdjR19DLTVGVDdQRjE5Y0dZODVJQVc0eG9tSmhJTk1FRm55cDJ4NHRvUnFB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Social platforms made \u20ac32m from scam ads on Irish users<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiygFBVV95cUxOS2NyZENKUDVnWW9LcDJKTGZIdU1GUFZIWTFGUmlhckZRZFpibUg2TjdOUk1jZGxNU0Jsb3NxdldYRlJVcVQ4OHYwN25VZE1Bd1ViNUpISTNHWVpPY1pyU052a0t6TUdhZjNKSFdkMEhrZlVPU1dualpwTk8wZlVaZVFhX0htdER1OW9jb0ZWbDlMTkhhZHd6NmNQSlozTmNvY1lSV0I3QTZGdHNDaVBxLUlBRGdUcGZleEVZcFNuZmp2NmZrSk8tR1lB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">David McWilliams on how social media giants are making billions from fake ads<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMib0FVX3lxTE9DVVhMTjBYck1rOHpwU3BJY2dIT3pkZEZ6T2ZyYXBLQXFHUVdlTW1QTGxTa21qQTVONnZtYXpIcktLZEo2b1FEaktvVUFPSjYzdlFEVW1ycWJFc2k4VkRzS0g2eG92czdnQ3Z0cDBibw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Average loss to scam Irish social media adverts now \u20ac1,500 &#8211; Revolut<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Newstalk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why is Revolut so interested in Irish social media users getting scammed?&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalSocial platforms made \u20ac32m from scam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4409,2605,72,536,61,60,1226,1087,28533,37108,8581,40204,58,28628],"class_list":{"0":"post-299140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-banking","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-fraud","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-meta","15":"tag-money","16":"tag-payment-fraud","17":"tag-payment-services","18":"tag-revolut","19":"tag-scam","20":"tag-social-media","21":"tag-tech-giants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}