RTÉ Payments Scandal

Fianna Fáil TD issues fraud alert about fake TV licence inspectors exploiting Ryan Tubridy controversy

Clare TD Cathal Crowe warned that residents in Ennis had been visited by fake TV licence inspectors seeking to enter their homes

Crowe said that the couple posing as TV licence inspectors stayed chatting on the doorsteps of a number of elderly residents in Ennis

A Fianna Fáil TD has warned that scammers are trying to capitalise on the Ryan Tubridy payment controversy by posing as TV licence inspectors.

It came after reports of a man and a woman who called to homes in Ennis in Clare, telling residents that they were TV licence inspectors.

They told the residents that there had been an escalation of TV license inspections in the wake of the Ryan Tubridy payment controversy, and asked ...