There’s a fresh warning over scammers this morning after a local person was conned out of a significant sum of cash only yesterday.
It follows a renewed call for people to be extra vigilant with scam callers now posing as Gardaí in order to try and access your personal information and money.
One such call yesterday resulted in thousands of euro being transferred by an unsuspecting victim of the scammers.
Garda Michael Whelan says he’s personally taken multiple reports of these spoof-ID calls over the past week.
He’s been telling KCLR “When you answer this call you’ll get a recorded message generally saying that your information has been used by someone caught committing a crime and they’ll ask you to, in order to have the people stopped that you need to pay some money”.
And he adds “The really weird thing is that the caller may indicate to you that they’re a specific guard calling from a garda station so this is highly unusual in that we haven’t seen this type of thing before but again we will never ask anyone to pay anything to get out of committing a crime, it’s just not the way it’s done here”.
