High Court told fictitious staff were paid wages for years

It comes following Friday’s Leaving Certificate results and this week’s third-level CAO offers

The judge fined Mircea Alexa €300, warning him that it must be paid in three months.

The District Court previously heard that the case involves accommodation fraud against a number of international students in south Dublin.

Herbert Kilcline (62), a former solicitor with an address at Bessborough Parade, Rathmines, Dublin, was convicted of fraud

A senator has asked an EU anti-fraud watchdog to investigate whether the State is failing to inspect ‘high-risk flights’ into Shannon Airport.

The Bank has seen a tenfold increase in reports of this scam in just 24 hours, compared to weekly levels earlier this year.

The woman from Co Down was targeted after meeting a fraudster on a dating site.

Gardaí said investigations are ongoing.

The majority of consumers (78 per cent) are now being targeted with scam texts, emails, or calls at least once a month.

A carpenter who claimed he could buy cattle from a bank following the repossession of farms and sell them on for a significant profit has been jailed for scamming two men out of over €900,000

A survey of 2,000 Irish adults by a global money app indicates that the vast majority think scams are getting more sophisticated.

The 31-year-old is wanted to stand trial for the offence of dangerous driving causing death over a crash in Co Donegal in April 2017.

David Williams (67), with an address in Lacken, Blessington, Co Wicklow, pleaded guilty to multiple sample counts of deception on dates between January 2019 and June 2020.

Revolut said the emotional and financial impact to those affected by impersonation scams can be devastating,

Over the holiday period, the busiest day for calls from customers was December 23rd with over 2,800 calls received.

Victims were allegedly targeted through a variety of popular dating apps.

When solicitor Michael Lynn fled Ireland in December 2007, he’d clocked up €80 million in loans from high street banks, much of them fraudulently secured via multiple mortgages.

The latest text message scam was described by gardaí as 'very convincing'

Noel Ward (59) made a plan with his friend to claim multiple social welfare benefits using the friend’s PPS number.

The bank is warning its customers that if they get a call from someone who asks them to go to a website or to click on a link that they send, to just hang up.

In recent weeks, AIB said scammers are using sophisticated technology to insert fraudulent text messages into legitimate message threads.

Chengwen Guo (41), of Ivy Exchange, Parnell Street, Dublin 1 was refused bail on Saturday and faced his second hearing on Wednesday

It is estimated that the phone company involved has been defrauded to the tune of €10 million.

Irish singer Dermot Kennedy is warning fans to be careful about another scam which is using his voice.

Gardaí said one third of all accommodation scams take place during August to September each year

The scam involves customers being visited by a taxi driver or a courier supposedly sent by the bank to collect their bank cards

Eamon Shield was slashed across his face in Mountjoy Prison by Christopher Coakley, cousin of Kinahan cartel murder victim Derek Coakley Hutch

Gardaí and PSNI carried out searches on both sides of the Irish border.

Judge Orla Crowe began with a headline term of 14 years when Cassidy was sentenced at Dublin Circuit Court last May but reduced this to seven years.

Nathan Roche (28) pleaded guilty to possessing €1,550 as part of a scheme to defraud the university's hardship fund

Raul Rodriguez Ramirez (36) used the money to invest in a restaurant business instead of using it to directly book courses for the students

Alina Glont, 42, appeared before Judge Fiona Brennan at Dublin District Court on Tuesday.

McMahon (27) of Greenwood Walk, Blunden Drive, Dublin 13, was arrested by appointment. When interviewed, he accepted that they were his accounts. He agreed that the money was not his, but he said that he had spent it.

As pastor of the City of David Church, he had sole access and control of its accounts between 2012 and 2020.

Gardaí said they recovered phones connected to the alleged frauds, and they believed one was linked to Dean Kelly's Revolut account.

The number of people who reported investment fraud in the first two months of this year has doubled compared to last year

Gardaí say more than €7 million has been stolen from the victims of romance fraud in the past five years.

South Dublin County Council asked gardaí to call to the home of a man who had been posing as a council dog warden, issuing fake on-the-spot fines to dog owners

Raul Rodriguez Ramirez (36) defrauded 18 students of almost €30,000 in total.

Patricia Kelly (61) is the widow of the charity's former chief executive, the late Paul Kelly