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 2025. A total of 39 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in May 2026.
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Scam Interceptors
Rav and Nick are forced to deal with an unexpected and badly timed interruption to their efforts to stop a scammer impersonating Sky.
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The team try to make one interception across borders, immediately followed by another only minutes away from their Glasgow hub. As Harleen hits the road, can she talk the victim out of it?
The team investigate the work of a scammer pretending to be from Amazon and trying to scam a man in the UK by saying that hackers have access to his online account.
Rav and Nick battle to stop a remote-access broadband scam, while interceptor Mark investigates sextortion scammers who blackmail victims with threats to expose intimate images.
The team are forced to dispatch their ground interceptors to save a woman in Essex from a devious scammer posing as PayPal.
A man is on the phone to a tech support scammer, leaving the team struggling to find a way to get through to him and stop the scam. And we chat to a fake Jennifer Aniston.
The team try to help a woman in Doncaster who is being scammed while at work, ending up in a tit-for-tat battle with the scammer to persuade her that they’re not part of the scam.
The team fight to stop a group of cryptocurrency scammers stealing money from a man in Kent as part of an elaborate con.
Series 5
Scammers pretending to be from Sky broadband and claiming there are problems with her internet have got into one woman’s phone and are just seconds away from helping themselves to her money.
Series 4
Can the ground team cross London and reach a local supermarket in time to stop a couple buying gift cards for scammers?
Series 5
The team confronts scammers posing as the UK’s National Crime Agency, but it’s going to take more than one hit to take this bunch of cybercrooks out of action.
Ethical hacker Jim Browning wins the team access to a brand new scam call centre, where criminals are in the midst of stealing one man’s passwords and email addresses.
Scammers posing as the police target a young carer based in London. If she does not comply with their demands, they say they will arrest her.
After scammers used her name and image to con victims out of thousands, Amanda Holden is teaming up with Scam Interceptors to turn the tables.
Series 5
The team take on foul-mouthed scammers claiming to be from the UK police. The fraudsters have bullied their victim into believing that criminals have opened bank accounts in his name overseas.
Scammers pretending to be a broadband provider take control of a man’s phone. They have turned on his camera and are cutting the team’s calls to him.
The team take on the most patronising and manipulative scammer they have ever come across as he seeks to convince a woman in Essex to hand over information for him to get into her bank account.
A scammer promises a free set of Apple AirPods to every person he speaks to. But we know that he is only after their money.
Series 4
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.
Series 5
The team hijack a scam call centre’s computer system – how will they react when they start messing with their calls?