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Rip Off Britain

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The Rip Off Britain team is ready to tackle the issues you feel affect you the most.

The Rip Off Britain team is ready to tackle the issues that most matter to you - from bills and bad customer service, to holidays and food.

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Rip Off Britain: Series 9

Gloria Hunniford

Angela Rippon

Julia Somerville

Rob Unsworth

Sherry Knight

Rip Off Britain: Series 9: Episode 6

Episode 6

Series 9

BBC One - Rip Off Britain, Series 9, Episode 6

The team looks at vitamin companies targeting older people with products they can't afford

Exposing the rip-offs that are costing British consumers. The team looks at how people are being tricked out of money by a scamming technique that's becoming increasingly common.

The latest scams are exposed on this edition of the consumer investigation series, presented by Angela Rippon, Julia Somerville and Gloria Hunniford. The team reveal how people across the country are being tricked out of hundreds of pounds by a scamming technique that's becoming increasingly common - but is impossible to trace.

The team also see how the biggest fraud of its kind was stopped in its tracks, after the elaborate con bagged the criminals a small fortune. As the team unpicks the practices of vitamin companies targeting older people with products they can't afford and may not need, tests uncover whether some of these products are even what they claim to be. And there is plenty of advice to stop you being caught out by the scammers.

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Angela Rippon and the team expose some of the rip-offs that are costing British consumers.

Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville return to their journalistic roots to expose some of the rip-offs that are costing British consumers.

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