The Clare Champion Clare news, sport, entertainment and local notes
THE dangers of commerce on Facebook were brought into focus this week with Clare people falling foul of scams. A woman in Kilrush made contact with a man that was selling puppies on the social media platform. A conversation took place between them on Messenger and the man asked the woman to get €100 in Pay Safe cards and send him the codes, which she did. He then said that a pet delivery company would deliver the puppy, but required another €20 another Pay Safe card for this. She duly sent him the code for this card. She got suspicious when he wanted more money and then realised that it was a scam and while she was able to cancel the €20 card, she could not cancel the one for €100. Another woman, this time in Ennis, suffered an even greater loss when attempting to buy a phone of a seller on Facebook. She paid €1,000 for a phone from …
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