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Kilkenny residents targeted in wave of new phone and online scams

By Kilkenny Now 30th October 2021 0

Kilkenny gardai have urged people to be alert for scam calls and texts after it dealt with four incidents of fraud locally within a 24-hour period. The cases involved bogus calls and links sent by mobile and email targeting local residents and card details being used without authorisation. In one instance, a man was scammed […]

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ALERT: New alert over flood of calls to Kilkenny residents claiming to be from gardai

By Kilkenny Now 1st July 2021 0

Kilkenny gardai are reminding residents once again to be “fraud aware” as they continue to receive reports from the public of calls from fraudsters claiming to be from the Government, State Agencies or Garda stations. The type of calls, spam automated calls to mobile phones typically informs the recipient that their PPS number has been […]

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Conmen steal thousands from Kilkenny woman’s bank account

By Kilkenny Now 5th June 2021 0

A Kilkenny woman had a substantial amount of money stolen from her bank account after she fell victim to a text scam. The unfortunate sequence of events began when the woman received a text message stating there had been some suspicious activity on her bank account. The text message prompted her to sign into her […]

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Kilkenny Garda warning as victim conned out of €5,000

By Kilkenny Now 30th April 2021 0

Gardaí in Kilkenny are urging the public to aware of fraudsters after it emerged a person in a neighbouring county lost €5,000 to people pretending to be from Social Protection Services. During the period April 1 to April 20, gardai reported 163 incidents of frauds across the county, three times as many as the same […]

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Smishing, vishing and phishing: Online fraud cases soar in Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 9th March 2021 0

Online fraud cases have almost doubled since the start of the year, Kilkenny gardai have warned. Local gardai made the revelation as they took part in National Fraud Awareness Week, a campaign to increase people’s understanding of the different types of scam targeting innocent members of the public. The most common of these are when […]