Gardai issue advice to Limerick public after number of people scammed
GARDAI have offered advice to Limerick people on how to avoid 'personal loan scams'.
Garda John Finnerty from Henry Street garda station said a number of people have fallen victim to the scams of late.
They applied online to a bogus website and were asked to pay an upfront fee to receive a guaranteed loan.
They paid this fee and only realised that the website was bogus when they received no correspondence ever again.
Garda Finnerty offered this advice to people: "If you are looking to borrow money from an online loan company please check the Central Bank Register.
"The Central Bank of Ireland’s Register contains individual registers for all financial service providers regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.
"To be 100% certain that the loan company that you want to deal with is legitimate only deal with a high street bank or your local Credit Union".