People have been left in stitches over a new spam email that shifts into an incredibly stereotypical fake Irish accent.
It seems that scams are getting more and more sophisticated nowadays, with some people nearly getting caught out at the emails that bring people to a very legitimate-looking site.
But, with the rise of generative AI, it appears that other scammers are just getting lazy — case in point, this scammer who sent an email pretending to be from An Garda Síochána, who was accusing the victim of being implicated in sex crimes.
While the email’s subject line would catch the attention of anyone who’s a potential victim, it quickly goes off the rails in the first line, which is addressed ‘for the attention of yerself.’
From there, it gets even weirder as it delves into, what we can only assume, is a combination of Uncle Colm from Derry Girls and all of the Healy Raes rolled into one, with lines including that a ‘criminal investigation into yerself is after bein’ started now, so it has, so it has.’
Credit: Twitter
Other lines include ‘yer potential criminal liability is under active an’ ongoin’ review, sure look, it is, no two ways,’ and that the investigation is being ‘chased up wid’ the full weight a’ the Irish law behin’ it, no two ways about it at all.’
A screenshot of the email was shared to Twitter (X), where it immediately went viral — with the rest of the email revealing that it had been written by ‘Secretariat,’ the famous racehorse (we assume the scammer meant ‘Secretary,’ but sure look).
Top o' the mornin' to ye, criminal! Pay up 1 bitcoin or we'll haul ye' to the ol' gaol!
— Roy Gemaliel Biv (@duo_mobile) April 30, 2026
‘Top o’ the mornin’ to ye, criminal! Pay up 1 bitcoin or we’ll haul ye’ to the ol’ gaol!’ one person joked, while another wrote: ‘I didn’t know a horse could write like that,’ in reference to Secretariat’s apparent new job in the Gardaí.
Other references were made to the Republic of Telly’s skit RoboGarda, a spoof of RoboCop, while another joked that the LLM (Large Language Model) watched hours of the Savage Eye’s Garda Affiction classes.
How they trained that LLM pic.twitter.com/45mqN4LFVV
— BlueSkyDrinking (@blueskiesdrink) May 1, 2026
‘Someone typed something like “rewrite this email into natural Irish English so it sounds like an Irish person” in their language into ChatGPT but they can’t read English to know it’s comedically hammed up so they just went with it,’ another wrote, while another added: ‘Yer to be charged wit acting the feckin maggot and havin no cop on.’
While this is a very obvious scam (so it is so it is), Gardaí issued an urgent warning earlier this year as scammers have been targeting potential victims with phone calls that come in from a number with the real Garda logo.
* This article was originally published on Extra.ie.
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