Scam Interceptors
Scam Interceptors is a TV show on BBC1. Working with ethical hackers, Rav Wilding is hunting down the scammers plaguing our lives – using cutting-edge tech to catch out the crooks. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 37 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in April 2025.
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Scam Interceptors
The interceptors take on scammers posing as the police, who even use fake recordings of walkie-talkie chatter to frighten their targets into believing they are genuinely speaking to the authorities.
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The ground team are scrambled in a desperate bid to stop a man handing over hundreds of pounds to broadband scammers.
The team encounter the most staggering of circumstances as a scammer, posing as a UK broadband company, tries to defraud an older man using remote access to his computer.
The team tackle scammers posing as the UK’s National Crime Agency to scare their targets into giving them money.
Scammers try to transfer a man’s money directly to a Thai bank account. In desperation, the team dispatch the ground interceptors to the man’s home address.
A British mother and daughter have let scammers claiming to be from Amazon take control of their mobile phone. Can the Interceptors intervene?
Series 3
The team post a parcel of pretend cash to flush the fraudsters out and confront them with their crimes.
It’s a race to the wire as the team try to stop one woman from transferring thousands of pounds of savings to the scammers.
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 before it’s too late.
Scammers in eastern India have convinced a woman in the Lake District that her bank account has been compromised by criminals.
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.
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 London to her place of work.
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 the scammers.
The team have intercepted a call centre claiming to be from Amazon. They have hooked in a man and are trying to get him to hand over his month’s rent money.
The Interceptors face a nail-biting race to pull one woman out of the clutches of the scammers.
The team investigates the shady world of romance fraudsters and play the scammers at their own game.
The team battle the most ruthless scammer they’ve ever faced as they try to stop a man in Scotland from handing over £2,000 in cash.
A giant scam call centre in Kolkata has convinced one woman they’re from her bank and that she needs to follow their instructions to save her money.
The team tap into a scam call centre in Jalandhar, north west India, that is trying to steal thousands from a woman in the UK.
Series 4, Episode 6 - Call Every Care Home in Sussex
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Scammers are about to swindle a woman in a care home in Sussex. To save her money, the team need to find out which one she’s in.