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Fake Britain

Series 2 - 30 Minute Versions

Episode 14

Duration: 20 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

We follow the UK Border Agency teams as they uncover illegal workers using fake documents to work in restaurants and take aways in Liverpool. We visit Newquay in Cornwall and show the increasing problem of fake IDs used by underage drinkers - and we see how a trading standards team shut down a company supplying the fake identification online.

We meet the Suffolk businessman who fell for the fake overseas inheritance scam - which ultimately cost him his home and his life savings. Show less

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