A con artist is attempting to cash in on Sinn F\u00e9in politician Pearse Doherty after setting up a fake profile asking people for money.<\/p>\n
The scam has led the Donegal TD to issue a warning to his followers after the impersonator set up a fake online account asking for financial contributions.<\/p>\n
The Gaoth Dobhair politician posted a statement telling his 125,000-plus social media followers that he had been conned.<\/p>\n
Doherty revealed a fake account had been set up and was asking people for money.<\/p>\n
He said “Let me be clear. I will never ask anyone for money, bank details, gift cards or any form of payment through social media or messaging apps such as Telegram for any of my constituency services.<\/p>\n
“If you receive a message claiming to be from me, please check that it is from my official verified account with the blue tick. If you are in any doubt, do not respond.”<\/p>\n
Doherty told his followers who come across the scammer to contact his office immediately.<\/p>\n
He added “Report the fake account immediately and contact my constituency office.<\/p>\n
“These scams are designed to exploit people\u2019s trust. Please help protect others by sharing this warning with your family and friends.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A con artist is attempting to cash in on Sinn F\u00e9in politician Pearse Doherty after setting up a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-544923","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\/544923","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=544923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}