{"id":159089,"date":"2025-11-02T17:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/159089\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:24:12","slug":"the-irish-swindle-french-police-issue-warning-over-charming-irish-fraudsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/159089\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Irish swindle\u2019 \u2013 French police issue warning over \u2018charming\u2019 Irish fraudsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Student is latest victim of ATM theft in which Irish \u2018tourists\u2019 con people out of large sums of money\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The scam takes place with the victim withdrawing money from a cash machine. Stock photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/72e458d5-5083-467f-9fee-871fd4ace20f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The scam takes place with the victim withdrawing money from a cash machine. Stock photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The stranger was tall and well-built, with striking blue eyes and a strong Irish accent. He approached a French university student on his way to class in the centre of Toulouse earlier last month, and introduced himself politely in English.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He was from Ireland, on holidays in the south of France, he said, and had been pickpocketed in a local bar, adding that all his money and bank cards had been taken and that he was stranded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Student is latest victim of ATM theft in which Irish \u2018tourists\u2019 con people out of large sums of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,2220,19,17,92561],"class_list":{"0":"post-159089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-julia-molony"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115481271898613467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}