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'Josh' tries to sell himself and his company by claiming he is millionaire Wall Street investor
00:32|Using vast amounts of leaked documents, The Irish Times, working with the journalism consortiums Investigate Europe, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Report Network (BIRN) has identified hundreds of Irish victims of investment frauds carried out by two scam call centres in Georgia and Serbia.These leaked audio files reveal how scam callers defraud their victims. The audio has been edited for length and clarity. You can read the full report here.
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Scam call centre agent 'Josh' begins to lure Simon Willis in by showing him modest gains on his initial investment of €250
01:29|Using vast amounts of leaked documents, The Irish Times, working with the journalism consortiums Investigate Europe, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Report Network (BIRN) has identified hundreds of Irish victims of investment frauds carried out by two scam call centres in Georgia and Serbia.These leaked audio files reveal how scam callers defraud their victims. The audio has been edited for length and clarity. You can read the full report here.Simon Willis confronts scammer 'George'
01:24|Using vast amounts of leaked documents, The Irish Times, working with the journalism consortiums Investigate Europe, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Report Network (BIRN) has identified hundreds of Irish victims of investment frauds carried out by two scam call centres in Georgia and Serbia.These leaked audio files reveal how scam callers defraud their victims. The audio has been edited for length and clarity. You can read the full report here.Simon Willis confronts scammer 'Josh' over fake image
02:17|Using vast amounts of leaked documents, The Irish Times, working with the journalism consortiums Investigate Europe, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Report Network (BIRN) has identified hundreds of Irish victims of investment frauds carried out by two scam call centres in Georgia and Serbia.These leaked audio files reveal how scam callers defraud their victims. The audio has been edited for length and clarity. You can read the full report here.'Josh' explains that Simon Willis must pay 'commission' before withdrawing funds
01:01|Using vast amounts of leaked documents, The Irish Times, working with the journalism consortiums Investigate Europe, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Report Network (BIRN) has identified hundreds of Irish victims of investment frauds carried out by two scam call centres in Georgia and Serbia.These leaked audio files reveal how scam callers defraud their victims. The audio has been edited for length and clarity. You can read the full report here.Scammer 'Kate' tells Simon Willis he will have to pay $4,000 to access his 'earnings'
02:37|Using vast amounts of leaked documents, The Irish Times, working with the journalism consortiums Investigate Europe, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Report Network (BIRN) has identified hundreds of Irish victims of investment frauds carried out by two scam call centres in Georgia and Serbia.These leaked audio files reveal how scam callers defraud their victims. The audio has been edited for length and clarity. You can read the full report here.
Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons, read by Freya McClements
00:59|Freya McClements reads Ribbons by Seamus Heaney, one of several previously unpublished works selected by the poet’s family and published in a new book. Poem extracted from The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue with Matthew Hollis, which will be published by Faber & Faber on October 9th, 2025