{"id":644872,"date":"2026-08-19T05:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/644872\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T05:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:07:15","slug":"people-in-kerry-urged-to-be-vigilant-to-accommodation-fraud-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/644872\/","title":{"rendered":"People in Kerry urged to be vigilant to accommodation fraud scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na is urging people in Kerry to be vigilant to an accommodation fraud scam in the county.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/killarney-gardai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Killarney garda\u00ed<\/a> say the scam has defrauded a number of people in the town in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>It purports to be leasing a house in the Killarney area, with the alleged landlord pressuring people to send a deposit before viewing to secure the house.<\/p>\n<p>Garda Cathy Murphy says such accommodation frauds are particularly prevalent in the run up to a new college year.<\/p>\n<p>She is urging people to always double check details, use verified sites or agents where possible, and never rush into a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Garda Murphy outlines the details of the scam.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na is urging people in Kerry to be vigilant to an accommodation fraud scam in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,12668,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-644872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-fraud","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117120443720271389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644872","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=644872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}