Mobile operator Three Ireland has said that it blocked more than 26 million suspected scam calls and intercepted over 455,000 fraudulent SMS messages in 2025.<\/p>\n
So far in 2026, Three said its fraud team has already blocked over 4 million scam calls and intercepted more than 650,000 fraudulent text messages.<\/p>\n
The company said the figures reflect a broader, industry-wide challenge, with fraudsters continuously evolving their tactics to target customers through both phone calls and text messages.<\/p>\n
With fraud activity typically increasing during the summer months, Three Ireland is urging customers to remain vigilant.<\/p>\n
On a single day alone, Friday 8 May, more than 27,000 scam calls were blocked on Three’s network alone, while over 5,000 suspicious calls were flagged to customers with a “possible scam” warning.<\/p>\n
The company said there is a growing shift towards more sophisticated call-based and social engineering scams, where fraudsters attempt to manipulate customers into sharing sensitive information in real time.<\/p>\n
“While we intercept large volumes of suspicious activity, vigilance remains key,” said Tom Kinsella, Chief Consumer Officer at Three Ireland.<\/p>\n
“Customers should always be cautious of unexpected calls or messages and never share personal or account information, including one-time security codes,” Mr Kinsella said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mobile operator Three Ireland has said that it blocked more than 26 million suspected scam calls and intercepted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-516976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516976","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=516976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}