Fraudulent scams jumped by 80% last year. That’s according to a new report by Banking & Payments Federation Ireland’s FraudSMART initiative which also found that victims were conned out of a whopping 15.6 million euro. For more on this Shane was joined this morning by BPFI's CEO Brian Hayes.

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