{"id":624663,"date":"2026-09-14T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624663\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:42:09","slug":"elderly-woman-in-north-kerry-has-e35000-stolen-from-her-home-by-scammers-purporting-to-be-from-her-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624663\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly woman in North Kerry has \u20ac35,000 stolen from her home by scammers purporting to be from her bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing for people to be more vigilant of fraud after \u20ac35,000 was stolen from an elderly woman in her home in North Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>On September 10th the woman received a call on WhatsApp from a male <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/fraud-crimes-in-kerry-jump-by-over-126-in-three-months-496466\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">caller claiming to be<\/a>\u00a0 &#8216;Security Bank of Ireland&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The caller told her that a hold had been placed on her account after an attempted transaction of \u20ac550 at Harvey Norman.<\/p>\n<p>Garda Eilish Cronin is urging people to never give out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/uhk-warns-patients-of-scam-text-messages-relating-to-medical-cards-497694\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sensitive personal information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are appealing for people to be more vigilant of fraud after \u20ac35,000 was stolen from an elderly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,265285],"class_list":["post-624663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-north-kerry-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624663","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=624663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}