Rav Wilding and his team take on a bunch of fraudsters, in real time, determined to fleece one couple out of thousands. The Interceptors also battle against a scammer to regain control of a woman’s mobile phone. Plus, plenty of advice and tips on how to avoid falling foul of other scams doing the rounds.
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Series 2 Cutdowns: 19. They Can See Your Phone Screen
A British mother and daughter have let scammers claiming to be from retail giant Amazon take control of their mobile phone. The women think they’re owed back money for a s ...
06-01-2025
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Series 3: 10. The Money, The Parcel And The Stakeout
The team tap into scammers at a call centre in Jaipur, India, who are talking victims into posting money to UK addresses. The team play along and post a parcel of pretend cash t ...
05-12-2024
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Series 3: 1. There’s Somebody At My Front Door!
Rav Wilding and the Scam Interceptors team, working alongside ethical hacker Jim Browning, are once again taking on the scammers fleecing UK citizens out of millions.\n\nIn this ...
04-12-2024
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Series 3: 20. Why Are You Crying?
A scammer claiming to be a senior manager at a high street bank mercilessly targets a traumatised victim. The Ground Interceptors are called into action to reach the woman befor ...
03-12-2024
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Series 3: 19. I'd Wrap My Stick Around His Neck
Scammers in eastern India have convinced a woman in the Lake District that her bank account has been compromised by criminals. They won’t take no for an answer, so it&rsqu ...
02-12-2024
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Series 3: 18. No More Scam Calls Ever
A telesales firm in Kolkata, India, is calling UK landlines, selling a telephone system that it claims can end the menace of scam calls forever. Except... it can’t. The te ...
28-11-2024
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Series 3: 17. A Tsunami Of Scams
Scammers pretending to be from Amazon have got a dental nurse on the line for thousands of pounds. Unable to get through on the phone, the ground interceptors chase across Londo ...
27-11-2024
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Series 3: 16. Somebody Took £5,000
Scammers in Jaipur, India, are pretending to be from Visa and convincing victims into handing over their money. The team try to persuade an elderly woman to believe them and not ...
26-11-2024
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Series 3: 2. I Just Want To Cry
The Interceptors face a nail-biting race to pull one woman out of the clutches of the scammers. But with attempts to reach her on the phone coming to nothing, the team despatch ...
25-11-2024
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Series 3: 15. If We Can't Find Him, He Is Going To Be Evicted
The team have intercepted a call centre claiming to be from Amazon. They’ve hooked in a man and are trying to get him to hand over his month’s rent money. If they re ...
25-11-2024
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Series 2: 14. The Phoney Cancellation Form
A man believes he has accidentally taken out a subscription, and he wants his money back. What he doesn’t know is that he is really talking to scammers, and the cancellati ...
26-10-2023
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Series 2: 20. The Vodafone Fakers
A man believes he is on the cusp of an incredible new phone deal from his mobile company. But in fact, he is talking to scammers who are about to use the information he is givin ...
03-11-2023
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Series 2: Episode 1
Working with ethical hackers, Rav Wilding is hunting down the scammers plaguing our lives – using cutting-edge tech to catch out the crooks.
01-05-2023
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Series 2: 19. They Can See Your Phone Screen
A mother and daughter let scammers claiming to be from a retail giant take control of their mobile phone. The women think they are owed back money for a subscription they never ...
02-11-2023
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Series 1: Episode 9
Working with ethical hackers, Rav Wilding hunts down the scammers plaguing our lives.
14-04-2022
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Series 2 Cutdowns: 13. Your Visa Card’s Been Hacked
A British woman thinks she’s speaking to Visa’s fraud department, which is telling her that her debit card has been hacked and an unauthorised transaction made. She& ...
02-09-2024
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Series 2 Cutdowns: 17. Absolute Bankers
The bank fraudsters are at it again, calling vulnerable people in the UK and trying to convince them their bank accounts have been compromised and that they need to move their m ...
07-10-2024
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Series 2: Episode 5
Working with ethical hackers, Rav Wilding hunts down the scammers plaguing our lives.
05-05-2023
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Series 2: 12. The £900 Iphone Scam
A student has taken a call from what she thinks is a retail giant’s fraud team, warning her that hackers have bought a £900 phone on her account. It’s a lie, o ...
25-06-2024
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Series 2 Cutdowns: 11. Hunting The O2 Fakers
The Scam Interceptors are on the trail of a criminal call centre based in Pakistan which is phoning UK mobiles pretending to be O2. \n\nIt’s a sophisticated scam in which ...
12-08-2024
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