Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is how good these guys are. Surely to God, with the technology we have today, the service provider has an obligation to protect us. I constantly get phone calls from elderly friends who say they just got a message about such and such and they ask if they should pay it. A dear friend rang me about a postal charge she had to pay. She said she could not remember posting anything. I said to forget it and ignore it. She said they told her they would not deliver it if she did not pay. Trying to convince somebody that this is a scam is a huge problem.