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 38 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2026.
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Scam Interceptors
Ethical hacker Jim Browning breaks into the CCTV system of a group of Pakistan-based scammers who are conning their way into a man’s mobile phone account.
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The interceptors must identify a man trapped into believing he is going to be arrested by the National Crime Agency if he does not transfer money to scammers.
The ground team are scrambled in a desperate bid to stop a woman letting her mobile phone account be used to buy scammers a brand new, top-of-the-range handset.
Series 4
A scammer weasels their way into a man’s computer, taking photos of his credit cards and getting access to his online banking account. Can the team stop him transferring his cash?
Cruel scammers force a woman into missing a vital medical appointment under the pretence that her internet is being hacked by criminals.
A scammer pretending to be from Microsoft tries to swindle a woman. Her only chance of saving her money is if the team can find a neighbour willing to help her out.
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.
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.
The ground team are scrambled in a desperate bid to stop a man handing over hundreds of pounds to broadband scammers.
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.
Series 5
Scammers claiming to be phone company BT have a couple in Yorkshire on the hook for thousands of pounds.
The team try to stop a Preston student from handing over money to scammers who have told her that they are from the UK’s National Crime Agency.
Series 6
Rav and Nick are forced to deal with an unexpected and badly timed interruption to their efforts to stop a scammer impersonating Sky.
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.