IPPN

It has come to the attention of IPPN that at least one school in the Galway area has this week received an e-mail, purporting to come from their own bank and including the Bank Logo, requesting details of their bank account for confirmation purposes. Luckily, the school recognised the e-mail as potential fraud and did not act on it.

As this type of approach by email has happened frequently with individual bank customers, all banks are very clear that they will never seek such information by email. This is our first experience of a school being approached in this context. This situation should be brought to the attention of any school employee who might receive it in the line of duty. As we have advised previously in the case of the European Schools Directory issue, no information about the school, or its bank account details, should be given to anybody online.

We are all grateful that this information has been brought to our attention so that we can keep you informed.

Le meas,

Virginia O'Mahony
IPPN Support Office