Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is a common thing. Many of these ads are fake websites. When I googled the phrase today, it came up with a website calledcompare-deposits.com. It had exactly the same web address as one that was shared with us on 30 June by the CEO of Bank of Ireland. He told us that this website was fraudulent but was sponsored on Google’s platform. I do not know whether that ad was taken down and this one, which was only established a couple of months ago, just happens to have the same name. When I put its name into a search engine to check its authenticity, its score was 1%. How could that happen?

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