{"id":446570,"date":"2026-05-13T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446570\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:55:10","slug":"more-than-200-fake-websites-targeted-irish-residents-with-scams-last-year-hotline-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446570\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 200 fake websites targeted Irish residents with scams last year &#8211; Hotline report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Bogus sites impersonate organisations like Revenue, An Post and Irish banks in bid to steal your cash\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Over 200 fake websites were discovered, wih most hosted outside Ireland and impersonating Irish institutions. Stock image\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/01d69fe7-bacf-4e0c-907f-227688e2de29.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Over 200 fake websites were discovered, wih most hosted outside Ireland and impersonating Irish institutions. Stock image\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">More than 200 websites were found to be targeting Irish residents with scams last year, including fake online shops and fraudulent loan websites claiming to be regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Financial scams targeting Irish people increased by 52pc in just one year, with many attempting to impersonate organisations like Revenue, An Post and Irish banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bogus sites impersonate organisations like Revenue, An Post and Irish banks in bid to steal your cash Over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,15552],"class_list":["post-446570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-maeve-mctaggart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446570","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=446570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}