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A PHISHING SCAM, whereby email-users are sent bogus messages purporting to be from Permanent TSB, appears to be on the increase.
A spokesperson for the bank said they had been hearing reports of a rise in similar con-efforts in Ireland in recent weeks, and that branding from various financial institutions was being used to try and fool customers into handing over personal details.
Readers of TheJournal.ie say there’s been an upsurge in the fake emails in recent days. We received a number of responses like the ones below, after sending an enquiry out on Twitter this morning:
The bogus email tells people their account has been “locked for security reasons” and includes instructions to download the following form:
(Image: Daragh Brophy/TheJournal.ie)
A spokesperson for Permanent TSB says “our advice is the same with all these thing – we won’t ever send you unsolicited emails asking you to click on links”.
He said the bank would never ask for details like account numbers via email, and added that there was “nothing unique” in the fact that PTSB branding was being used in the scam. He added:
We’ve noted reports of an increase in activity involving all the usual Irish banking names.
The banks’s customer care department is asking anyone who receives the scam emails to pass them on to info@permanenttsb.ie.
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Yeah but does it have a shed?
More importantly does it have a hot press
And an immersion switch
Will it make him happy?
There’s a one bedroom flat on Dame Street for the same price.
Bog Standard to be fair.
he must have a very small………
Ego
You can only sleep in one bed a night.
Or your ar*se on one chair Jake :)
It’d remind you of Tony Stark’s place
It may be a house but it doesn’t look like a home
Yeah but where is the nearest pub? You can’t buy social interaction
Pubs are lamer. House parties all the way.
I’ve always wanted a Jellyfish room.
Obscene.
Ah even though it’s excessive look at the bright side, it will generate a lot of jobs for people in the construction and maintenance and who knows years from now long after its owner is dead maybe it will draw tourists much like the historic opulent big mansions all across Europe attract them today.
We usually see record prices for art and stupid property projects like this one just before a major crash.
It’s like a block of flats or an alien space station. No character whatsoever.
Not for me.
Can you imagine the water bill
and the LPT…
2 sad and predictable posts within a few seconds of each other. Bravo.
I dont think it looks that nice, so its a no from me.
..meanwhile, there’s people dying of hunger in exploited 3rd world countries… let alone the streets of LA
The biggest!……the folks in Texas is going to be mightily pissed off……dagnabbit!
Ostenttacios and ugly!
500m and all the starving people in the world..sad really
Fools and their money!!
Jealous methinks – ah rich people, screw them(!) ;)
Screw em, marry em, live in the mansion, get a good settlement when they ditch you for a younger number.
According to IMDB he produced a total of 11 films – where did he get all his money from?!
Kip
http://theshovingbuddies.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/versailles.jpg
This is the 90,000sq ft monstrosity being build by David Siegel here in Orlando. You can’t buy class.
500 million, he’s having a giraffe.
Looks like a mini waterland.
For what?
Is there a carbon footprint for building this monstrosity? Should I keep sorting my plastic from my paper waste or are we, the 99 percent wasting our time trying to save the planet?
I’ll live in the master suite, b plenty enough space thank u very much
Perfect timing, considering the drought that is going on fir the last three or so years in Cali…
http://ca.gov/drought/
Also..talk about the need to compensate…jeez, how big is big enough…
Alternatively you could stack up a load of pallets for a billion dollars.
Right smack in the middle of Mumbai’s slums.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333849/Mukesh-Ambani-s-housewarming-party-80-guests-630m-21st-century-Taj-Mahal.html
Cosy.
Some Blockbuster…
SANANDREAS ???
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