Online Scams

Bank Of Ireland phishing e-mail – would you fall for this?

A friend sent me this e-mail phishing attempt from a month or so ago – pretending to be a Bank of Ireland [...]

Deceptive spam – the Irish 419 scam?

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve started to get  a huge amount of spam e-mail that when I first saw it, [...]

Testing out a website that you’re not sure of – some top tips

Earlier this week I wrote a post, Websites you can trust – what to watch out for?, about things to check out [...]

Websites you can trust – what to watch out for?

In the past, I have compiled top tips to protect yourself when online – Avoid Online Scams, Protect your personal data, Avoid [...]

AIB Customers Targeted by Phishing Again

I received this e-mail during the week. It was reported last weekend that these phishing attempts have increased by 150% in the [...]

MoneyGuideIreland.com steals content – a site to avoid

It’s been another busy week here so the Consumer Weekend News Short Stack probably won’t be published this weekend. But in the [...]

Did you get an e-mail from George Towoin at Bank of Ireland?

Ignore it. It’s a phishing e-mail. It’s a scam, but it looks a lot different to a lot of others that I’ve [...]

Phishing – if anyone is fooled by this, they deserve it

For so many reasons, this is one of the worst attempts at phishing I’ve seen in a long time. I can see [...]

Allied Irish Banks hit by more complex phishing

I have this website bookmarked for quite a while now. I think I came across it while I was researching this article [...]