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PEOPLE ARE BEING warned to be alert against a phishing scam involving fraudulent emails and texts purporting to come from the Revenue Commissioners.
Emails with the subject line “tax refund” – which are claiming to be from Revenue – are seeking out people’s debit and credit card details.
The Revenue Commissioners is asking anyone who receives an email or text message purporting to be from Revenue and suspects it to be fraudulent or a scam to forward it to webmaster@revenue.ie and then delete it.
A phishing scam is where bogus emails are sent to people in order to trick them into revealing personal or financial information.
Those who may have provided personal information in response to these fraudulent emails or text messages are being advised to contact their bank or credit card company immediately.
Bogus emails
“They are bogus and are not being issued by the Revenue Commissioners,” said Communications Minister Denis Naughten.
“Revenue never sends emails or text messages requiring people to send their personal information over email, text or by any other unsecure means,” he added.
“This is a common type of email scam where those who receive it are told they are eligible to receive a tax refund. It presents a link to an online claim form, which asks for personal and financial information, including bank account details.
“Anyone who may be actually awaiting a tax refund should contact their local Revenue Office to check its status. Emails and text messages purporting to be from Revenue must not be opened or responded to,” urged the minister, who said people must remain vigilant against cyber criminals.
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Good news for Limerick. A good range of jobs too. This is what the government are busy doing getting businesses to invest in Ireland while the media only want to report ‘scandals’. Good news never makes the headlines unfortunately.
Hopefully it’s not like the fake jobs announcement from Ethicon/Vistakon a few months ago
140 new jobs over the next three years!! I won’t pop the champagne just yet.
Sound like good jobs and if every big business added 140 jobs it’d add up pretty fast…. probably not as good as your “work from home” jobs though…
Are these “New” jobs or are they contractors being made permanent?
Red thumb as much as you like but it’s a pertinent question. I’ve heard of a big announcement recently in Limerick for 90 new jobs but the reality was the jobs were already filled by existing contractors
I agree, it’s a valid question to ask. It doesn’t necessarily mean that 140 unemployed people will be filling new positions over 3 years.
That’s very true Shane there really wasn’t any ” new” jobs at all .
Those jobs should really be moved to Dublin
Why
Because he is a troll and there always right
Here, there, everywhere.
Troll.
The cost of locating them in Dublin is too high.
It’s a good news and not a bad news story.
Nice stock image of the place too from the Clare hills.
There is a big movement against IW going on in this country that the media does not wish to report on, Instead they make satire articles of the issue.
People should not return any phising packs to IW, don’t engage with them, don’t hand any info over to them. There is very little they can do to force you to pay. They will be swamped in so much paper it will keep them busy till next xmas
Irish water will find it very easy to make people pay. It may take till next Christmas but you’ll still pay.
You can oppose Irish water but don’t let some poor eejits get in to a mountain of debt by doing so.
How many of these are allocated for job bridge?
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