How a tech savvy woman lost €30,000 in an invoice scam
This episode was originally published in March 2026.
If you got an invoice you’d been waiting for from your builder for work done, you’d get ready to pay it, wouldn’t you?
And if, a couple minutes after that, you got another invoice from the builder saying that actually he’d made a mistake and he’d given you the wrong bank details, you’d think nothing of it and proceed to pay.
Well that’s exactly what the reader who contacts our consumer affairs correspondent Conor Pope did. She sent the requested €30,000 to her builder and thought nothing more of it – until a week later when her builder…
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