{"id":453949,"date":"2026-05-17T20:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453949\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:54:07","slug":"gardai-appealing-for-information-on-number-of-suspected-investment-fraud-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453949\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed appealing for information on number of suspected investment fraud cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed in Kerry are appealing for information on a number of suspected investment fraud cases.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed believe that several of cases have taken place in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public being have reported being contacted by text message, with the sender falsely claiming to be an overseas family member seeking cash to fund an investment.<\/p>\n<p>A courier has then been dispatched to collect the money from the victim.<\/p>\n<p>The investment scheme has been confirmed to be a case of fraud and deception.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who has been approached in this manner to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information can contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garda.ie\/en\/contact-us\/station-directory\/killarney.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Killarney Garda Station<\/a> on 064 667 1160<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed in Kerry are appealing for information on a number of suspected investment fraud cases. Garda\u00ed believe that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,197009,60],"class_list":["post-453949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-investment-fraud","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453949","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=453949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}