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)

Ms Abigail Bishop:

The Deputy's understanding is correct that our policy is to not allow sellers to accept payments off our platform. If that does happen, we would rely on some of our self-reported mechanisms from our customers to let us know that it had happened. Our ability to track or monitor that is as capable as any other type of impersonation or off-store scam. It is not actually an MO which has hit the peak of prevalence. Some other MOs are-----