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# scam texts

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Bank of Ireland warns customers of 'alarming' fraud increase

The number of new phishing websites detected by the bank’s fraud prevention team has doubled since last month.

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Jun 30th 2021, 12:53 PM

Bank of Ireland issues scam warning after spike in number of fake text messages being sent to customers

The bank said it will never text customers asking them to update or provide online information.

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Apr 22nd 2020, 6:28 PM

Scam texts pretend to be from... the Data Protection Commissioner

Office of DPC warns that phone messages purporting to be from them and asking for name, address and PPSN number are false.

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Jul 11th 2011, 7:21 PM