{"id":244009,"date":"2025-12-21T08:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/244009\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T08:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:14:11","slug":"gifts-that-dont-exist-and-fake-invoices-to-busy-staff-scams-doing-the-rounds-this-christmas-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/244009\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts that don&#039;t exist and fake invoices to busy staff: Scams doing the rounds this Christmas &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiekFVX3lxTE9Cam40amtaNkttU1g2WUI4ZG82NkFzUklNbG1CVG5vek1pTTVrRFMxSENNWkxLaE1POUUxTFN0dUZ6Z3B0QVh0a21ZSmF1M09OblpTc1czVFNKRUkydWFVak5HQkJUSnBvQWhWdUV3VXNoNnd5N0x3MUJR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gifts that don&#8217;t exist and fake invoices to busy staff: Scams doing the rounds this Christmas<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiekFVX3lxTE5VY2I3d3pBeWtQaDV5cFlreFBHZm1MU0lQTC1vcnUzRGw1THFoaU9UbDcyTHZ2dXUzSHROeE1ucXFPSlFpU3Jwd1BaeEFvTVRYa19QTEs3ajBwakIxMHVPWlZSRDV0bG12MTlfUURXbnhrVTZHRy1iUkdn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Banks warn of rise in &#8216;smishing&#8217; scams ahead of Christmas period<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixwFBVV95cUxOX0Z3MW13ajN3QUJ5MXBIMzd2enJfWDR3NnprckREc3g1dHVYLXZnVmpRWTd6NDdEMVlZWi1SQk5sbG1nZ2RHRGI5TFBhY3JFc0tuaVVqYW5HTDliRGlVS05RNENmSnR0MHVTaVR1MlpmMUFBN0lob0VMQ0loRFdKTE9IQW8xVjVYUERNZGRQWVpHYzBtN0RXVEFKNzJWM2ZXSnNTQVRoZTk1RER2amRZbzc4RG0zbDJpd05UbTZVdkVYekNBOUJF?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Text message scams by far the most common route for online fraudsters, AIB says<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi2gFBVV95cUxPalg5UXd2WTkwXy1lTm1zV2Fnam4td2hpVHdxQ3VXeEI1Z2JocGlURWxjSjlweVFWaEF2YWZwWUpYTnM0VEczVHpBTXRKdHh0NExlU00zeDJabVlLbG9QV3k4eFRLeVhINEs3U2poV0xpWmZtUmRTSDc1Z3Z5dDYxQ2xEdEpEQ092WWhMMFowNWdXcHpFa0FlZGdPYngxb2RHNzlyU0tlSXNUcThmaVlYVU5Id3BncWVncHR0VUhYOGlSdFo5aE1Fd3kzWHdQaTlhNXVNcXlBTmo3Zw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fraudsters eye festive season as AIB warns customers to be alert for \u2018smishing\u2019 scams<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Independent<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gifts that don&#8217;t exist and fake invoices to busy staff: Scams doing the rounds this Christmas&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal Banks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[128068,79,128069,18,12668,19,17,128070,12314,1923],"class_list":{"0":"post-244009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-better-watch-out","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-christmas-crime","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-fraud","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-look-out","16":"tag-scams","17":"tag-the-morning-lead"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115756562143619739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244009","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=244009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}