A Different View with Dave O’Connell

It might have been a Bank Holiday Monday, but the scammers were still working flat-out – and thankfully so were the security staff and fraud unit at AIB itself.

Because I fell hook, line and sinker for what I now know was a very elaborate scam, although thankfully the only penalty was having to spend the last week without credit or debit cards.

What lifted this above the normal phishing exercise was that the first point of contact was a message from a number normally used by AIB to tell me that my monthly credit card........

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