A special episode featuring some of our most shocking insurance cheat cases from across the years, dug deep from our archives. First up, as low as it gets – the heartless woman who puts in multiple false claims to profit from tragedies like the Grenfell Tower fire. The brazen conman who forgets which side his fake injury is on. The woman whose arson-for-cash scheme goes horribly wrong, with her child tragically paying the price. A cosmetic surgeon abuses his position to make millions of dollars on medical health insurance scams. And trying it on in Turkey – CCTV reveals a man throwing shapes round the pool when he claimed to be throwing up.
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Series 15: 15. Most Shocking
A special episode featuring some of our most shocking insurance cheat cases from across the years, dug deep from our archives. The shameless serial scammer, finally caught out a ...
08-12-2023
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Series 15: Episode 14
A chef who made an outrageously high claim by exaggerating his injuries after a genuine workplace accident finds himself in hot water. A dangerous driver who stopped his car in ...
07-12-2023
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Series 15: Episode 13
A holidaymaker is sent packing when his £12,000 claim for a cancelled trip abroad is discovered to be a flight of fancy. A bogus claim for a car crash hits the skids when ...
06-12-2023
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Series 15: Episode 12
A man who lost his brother to Covid is jailed after trying to cash in life insurance he had taken out in his dead sibling’s name. A driver making a bogus claim is caught o ...
05-12-2023
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Series 15: Episode 11
A young woman who tried to cover up a car crash with a catalogue of tall tales calls up to confess. A claim for £100,000, made by a factory worker injured at work, is expo ...
04-12-2023
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Series 15: 10. Most Shocking
A special episode featuring some of the most shocking insurance cheat cases from across the years, dug deep from our archives. An American ex-wife who’s the beneficiary of ...
01-12-2023
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Series 15: Episode 9
A DJ’s injury claim hits the deck when online posts show he’s been spinning a tall tale. Phone woes – a driver demanding a cash payout after a minor collision ...
30-11-2023
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Series 15: Episode 8
A claim for a quarter of a million euros goes up in flames when a holiday fire in France turns out to be all smoke and mirrors. A martial arts expert’s case is given the c ...
29-11-2023
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Series 15: Episode 7
Keeping it all in the family – a vast organised network of scammers is exposed, revealing fraud on an industrial scale. A van driver’s spurious claim hits the skids ...
28-11-2023
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Series 15: Episode 6
A father and son who get caught up in a police chase find themselves on the wrong side of the law after making bogus claims. During lockdown, when the streets across the country ...
27-11-2023
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Series 14: Episode 2
Insurance cheats come under the spotlight of the investigators. Today, a fast-food brawl leaves one woman convinced she has a fighting chance of getting her hands on £100, ...
19-09-2023
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Series 12 (shortened Versions): Episode 6
Secret filming is the undoing of a con man claiming he can’t work due to an injury, while elderly drivers are ruthlessly targeted in a car park crash scam. A first-time bu ...
11-10-2021
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Series 12 (shortened Versions): Episode 12
A fraudster protests their innocence when they are caught scamming a holiday company, while revealing CCTV shows that an employee claiming for personal injury compensation was a ...
19-10-2021
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Series 13 (shortened Versions): Episode 8
Insurance cheats come under the spotlight of the investigators. Today, a man who claims a fall into a garden pond left him with a fear of heights posts pictures of himself enjoy ...
07-09-2022
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Series 7 (30 Minute Versions): Episode 2
Secret filming exposes a bogus claim, the next stop is prison for a trio of fraudsters when the British Transport Police catch up with them, and a woman is caught planning her h ...
01-05-2017
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Series 13: Episode 11
A slippery customer suspected of faking falls in shops so he can claim for his supposed injuries is caught out on CCTV. An unlucky holidaymaker who falls victim to a burglary li ...
29-11-2021
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Series 10: Episode 3
A woman ends up behind bars when the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department crack a fake death scam that also implicated her own son to cash in on a life insurance policy, while ...
18-10-2018
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