Monthly Archives: January 2010

Fraud and Midweek

January 28th, 2010 | by Eamon Dillon

Last night I got another chance to go on about fakes, frauds and scams, this time on TV3′s Midweek with


FAKE illness

January 26th, 2010 | by Eamon Dillon

This is another story from the “You Couldn’t Make it Up” department. Lisa Hayden-Johnson was jailed for three years last


MORE mortgage fraud

January 21st, 2010 | by Eamon Dillon

Last year banking officials told the Dail Accounts Committee that they were pretty much on top of mortgage fraud and


REAL fakes

January 18th, 2010 | by Eamon Dillon

Sometimes the fakes are the real thing, but are being passed off as something else. Pictured are euro, turkish lira


CARD sharks

January 15th, 2010 | by Eamon Dillon

It’s looks like we were right to be paranoid about credit card fraud. A court case in London has laid


DEAD man’s birthday

January 14th, 2010 | by Eamon Dillon

There was a case today in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that says it all about welfare fraud. A 65-year-old


BOGUS Angels

January 13th, 2010 | by Eamon Dillon

A pair of fraudsters wormed their way into an elderly lady’s life by faking their religious devotion. Brothers Conor and


POINTING the finger

January 12th, 2010 | by Eamon Dillon

It seems that people don’t like to hear about their neighbours ripping off the welfare system anymore. The Department of



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