Inside the call centres where Irish victims are top targets for investment scammers
Scam call centres are paying up to €1,200 per person for the contact details of potential Irish victims.
And once they have a name and number, it’s game on, with highly-trained fraudsters working the phones to persuade victims to part with their money via bogus investment “opportunities”.
Analysis by The Irish Times has identified 31 Irish victims who lost a combined total of nearly €300,000. This includes a 76-year-old man who lost €61,720, and a high-ranking diplomat who lost more than €31,000.
Details of the transactions are contained in a vast data leak - including recordings of the…
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