Fake ‘Irish’ shops on Facebook are conning shoppers

Websites pretending to represent businesses in Ireland are scamming shoppers with more than 50,000 Meta ads on Facebook.

Consumers fall for sob stories about closing down sales and buy goods that never arrive, or turn up looking very different to what was ordered.

Stephen McDermott with ‘The Journal Investigates’ says while the ads claim the shops are in Ireland, the invoice normally comes from Asia, making it very difficult to return the goods……..

 

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